Re: Devilish: Forget about DNS

Yakov Shafranovich <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:33:21 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg.smtpverify
Organization SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> 
> So skip this pseudoproblem and come to the main problem: 
> How to authorize senders of messages.
> 
> This is not a return to the starting point. This is a warp out of the 
> whole this discussion is sticking in.
> 

There are multiple ways to accomplish this goal without resorting to a 
new global naming service or DNS (cached callback comes to mind). 
Perhaps we should just reformulate the problem as:

How do we introduce sender authentication into the email system?

Yakov
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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord 
Acton)
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