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digital signature

n.
A digital file attached to an email or other electronic document that uses encryption and decryption algorithms to verify the document's origin and contents.
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digital signature

n
(Computer Science) computing electronic proof of a person's identity involving the use of encryption; used to authenticate documents
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Trustwave SEG 8.2 is built on industry standards including Sender Policy Framework (SPF) to detect and block email spoofing, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to authenticate email senders and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) to pinpoint spam and phishing messages.
WikiLeaks said it verified its batch of emails using DomainKeys Identified Mail - or DKIM - signatures, a cryptographic protocol that acts like a digital shipping manifest and has become an increasingly popular way for researchers and tech-savvy journalists to prove that emails are authentic.
Likewise, DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is another method that verifies the content of messages are trustworthy, meaning that they were not altered from the moment the message left the initial mail server.
* Add the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) signature to the email message headers
One of the authentication technologies is DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), which verifies the domain name through which a message was sent by analyzing the message's cryptographic signature.
Almost a decade after the industry last set out to solve the problem with DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)and Microsoft's Sender Policy Framework(SPF, later called Sender ID), DMARC's arrival is an acceptance that these have not been enough.
In the new approach, companies would coordinate efforts at a massive scale to implement technologies for email authentication, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail).
New security features in CanIt 7.0.8: CanIt now has built-in support for DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail).
The protocol DomainKeys or its newer cousin, DKIM, is used to verify that a message actually came from the purported sender's domain--the part following the @ sign.
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