| 02/02/2008 10:33:09 |
 Eugene Mayevski |
Authentication And Online Trust Alliance has published a report that reviews current situation of e-mail authentication among large companies and ogranizations. The report says that more than a half of all e-mail is authenticated. What does this mean?
Authentication of the sender is an important step in fight against unauthorized e-mail. Now, when so much e-mail is authenticated, it's vital that the verification takes place on all stages of e-mail processing, and that e-mail is handled properly (this includes acceptance of the valid authenticated e-mail and lowering the weight of other factors when e-mail is authenticated right).
The most widespread authentication mechanisms are Sender ID (formerly SPF) and DKIM (formerly DomainKeys).
MIMEBlackbox package of SecureBlackbox includes both signing and verification of DKIM-signed e-mails.
The report itself can be found here.
You will find lots of useful information, related to authentication schemes, their supporters etc. in this report.
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