E-mailing Security Issues
Teodor Timplaru, Roxana Timplaru · Annals of the University of Craiova Mathematics and Computer Science Series · 2009
E-mail spoofing - as an important matter of actual security issues related to emailing activities - is a fast growing problem and has reached the point where you simply cannot rely on the information displayed in your client to tell you who really sent a message. Some authorities from countries throughout the world have already enacted laws against this form of e-mail identity theft, but the more effective solution should be a technological one that makes it possible to authenticate the senders of messages. Some of the most popular mechanisms currently in development are SPF and DKIM. In this article, we will take a look at the problem and the proposed solutions so far.