The ramblings of a computer geek
To explore how DKIM validation works first got an email in .eml format as an example email which was a known good email where the DKIM validation is OK. Meaning that both the header and the body are unchanged from when the email was first DKIM signed. There is a little tool called “dkimpy”, which […]
More...Email was never designed to be secure, anyone can use your domain to send an email, “spoofing” as it is known. This can be useful to make sure your receive email if you are using a cloud hosting service, or it can be a complete nightmare; nefarious persons may spoof your domain to trick your […]
More...Emails crossing the internet use secure connections encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS). However, there remain vulnerabilities in this method of protecting the confidentiality of emails, whereby a person-in-the-middle can trick incoming connections to send to another server and/or send information in the clear. MTA-STS is a standard designed to address these vulnerabilities and is […]
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