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Welcome to this week's edition of Etips.
In this week's edition of Etips, Merle will provide you with some interesting
information about the new 'Sender ID' email protection plan.
I hope you'll enjoy the publication.
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 Sender ID: The Next Wave
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Merle Copyright
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So what's all this talk about "Sender
ID" and what exactly does it mean to you as an email user? Sender ID is the
convergence of Microsoft's "Caller ID" and Meng Wong's "Sender Policy Framework"
(SPF).
What Sender ID does is verify that every piece of email sent actually did
originate from the domain it claims to have come from, based on the sender's
server IP.
The majority of junk email being sent uses forged sender addresses. This
practice is also known as "Spoofing." Spoofing goes hand in hand with a scam
called "Phishing." This is where someone sends spoofed email, usually pretending
to be from your Bank, credit card companies or other highly trusted
organizations, trying to get you to divulge your credit card numbers, usernames
or passwords -- even your social security number. Once the phisher obtains
this information, it is used to hack into your financial accounts or make
unauthorized charges on your cards. For more on Phishing, see this site:
http://www.antiphishing.org/
Sender ID will hopefully prevent these types of practices completely.
A draft proposal of Sender ID was sent for review to the "Internet Engineering
Task Force" for consideration as an Industry Standard for email
authentication.
The task force's decision remains to be seen. Microsoft recently threw a
wrench in the mix by deciding to demand a registration license for their
part of the Sender ID Program. Since the new protocols need to be freely
available to the public, this is causing additional problems.
Here's a quick breakdown of the Sender ID process in a nutshell:
1) All email servers must publish the ID address of their outbound email
servers in the DNS (Domain Name System)
2) When email is received, each system looks at the incoming messages to
determine if they did indeed originate from the domains listed.
3) This verification is determined by querying the DNS for the list of outbound
email server IP addresses for that particular domain. If the IP the email
was sent from is not in that list, it is most likely a spoofed message.
Remember, sender ID offers no guarantee that your email will be delivered,
nor does it solve the huge Spam problem, but it will stop Domain Identity
Theft by spoofers.
For more information, even an online wizard to help you create your own SPF
text record see
http://microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/privacy/spam_senderid.mspx.
Another great resource with some very handy tools is
http://spf.pobox.com.
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