Manufacturing Industry
Can we really "can" spam?(E-MAIL AUTHENTICATION)
Manufacturing Business Technology, June, 2005
The answer so far would seem to be "no." According to Stanford University's Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, dealing with spam accounts for five minutes out of every hour spent online. Lost productivity is estimated to be $20 billion a year. The latest WMD in the war on spam is authentication--i.e., attempting to determine that incoming e-mail is from a legitimate sender.
Two approaches are at the forefront: IP address-based solutions such as the Sender ID Framework (SIDF) verify the address of the machine sending the message, while crypto-based authentication validates a cryptographic signature on messages received. Now, IBM's testing playground for developers, alphaWorks, is offering an experimental spam filter called FairUCE...
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