The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently gave its preliminary approval to a powerful technology designed to detect and block fake e-mail messages. It's called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and it promises to give Internet users to identify and stop the seemingly endless flow of fraudulent junk e-mail by providing a method for validating an identity that is associated with a message, during the time it is transferred over the Internet. That identity then can then be held accountable for the message.

The draft standard that the Internet Engineering Task Force adopted is a promising solution because it harnesses the power of cryptographically secure digital signatures to thwart online miscreants.

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