The protocols for that kind of authentication, known as DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) are hardly new.

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The second of those strategies may be enacted with a new system called DomainKeys Identified Mail, which would embed encrypted digital signatures in e-mail messages.

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