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Re: Paper on Email Authentication (Authorization really) (was - Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon Jun 13 16:47:29 2005
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:45:39 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506131255451.25951@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 06/13/05, "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net> wrote:
> In part 5, I also go through why none of the proposals are really
> "anti-spam" and promotion of the methods as such is misleading.
No matter how the authors may "promote" their methods, most
people don't perceive that there's any great separation between
anti-spam and anti-forgery techniques. As far as they're
concerned, all e-mail threats are basically the same.
E-mail authentication's promise is that it will improve the
overall state of the global e-mail infrastructure. Chopping
that into smaller bits may be a fun intellectual exercise, but
it doesn't help explain what's going on to anyone outside of
our fairly small technology-focused circles.
--
J.D. Falk blong! you are a pickle!
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
