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Parent topics

• Email system [r]: General overview of how the Internet electronic mail system works. ^[e]
• Email security [r]: Brief description of email security problems and solutions. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Sender Policy Framework (SPF) [r]: Email authentication method that verifies the domain name in the envelope return address against the sender's IP address. ^[e]
• Sender ID [r]: Email authentication method that verifies the domain name in a "purported" address with the sender's IP address. ^[e]
• DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) [r]: Email authentication method that uses a digital signature to verify the content of a message. ^[e]
• Forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS) [r]: Email authentication method that verifies a domain name found by a reverse DNS query on the transmitter's IP address. ^[e]
• Email challenge-response [r]: An authentication method that verifies the purported sender's address by sending a challenge to that address. ^[e]

• Reverse MX (RMX) [r]: Email authentication method that became a basis of SPF and Sender ID. ^[e]
• Designated Mailers Protocol (DMP) [r]: Email authentication method that became a basis of SPF and Sender ID. ^[e]
• Certified Server Validation (CSV) [r]: Email authentication method that verifies the hostname of an SMTP transmitter against that transmitter's IP address. ^[e])

• Email forwarding problem [r]: The authentication failures that occur in some popular IP-based Email authentication methods when a forwarder is involved. ^[e]
• Sender Rewriting Scheme [r]: A scheme for email relays to rewrite the Return Address on a forwarded message, allowing the forwarder to intercept any bounces. ^[e]
• Bounce Address Tag Validation [r]: A method, defined in an Internet Draft, for determining whether the bounce address specified in an E-mail message is valid. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Kerberos [r]: A protocol using a central server to provide two clients with a shared session key, without either client having to publish a public key. ^[e]
• Transport Layer Security (TLS) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) [r]: E-mail encryption package created by Phillip Zimmerman. ^[e]
• Information security [r]: The set of policies and protective measures used to ensure appropriate confidentiality, integrity and availability to information; usually assumed to be information in a computer or telecommunications network but the principles extend to people and the physical world ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Email forwarding problem [r]: The authentication failures that occur in some popular IP-based Email authentication methods when a forwarder is involved. ^[e]
• IP blacklist [r]: A list of known web site addresses that are considered off limits or dangerous. ^[e]
• Reverse MX [r]: Email authentication method that became a basis of SPF and Sender ID. ^[e]
• Asymmetric key cryptography [r]: A category of cryptographic techniques, which greatly simplify key management, which are based on mathematically related key pairs, such that the "public" key can be used to encrypt and be freely available, and only the holder of the "private" key can decrypt the message ^[e]
• Sender ID [r]: Email authentication method that verifies the domain name in a "purported" address with the sender's IP address. ^[e]