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DomainKeys Identified Mail is an anti-spam proposal that involves mail servers digitally signing outbound email and verifying signatures on inbound email. The scheme makes no use of existing public key infrastructure or email security standards. This paper provides an outline of the scheme and discusses some reasons why re-use of existing standards is inappropriate in this context.
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Farrell, S. (2006). DomainKeys Identified Mail Demonstrates Good Reasons to Re-invent the Wheel. In: Atzeni, A.S., Lioy, A. (eds) Public Key Infrastructure. EuroPKI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4043. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11774716_12
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