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Parent topics

• Email system [r]: General overview of how the Internet electronic mail system works. ^[e]
• Email security [r]: Brief description of email security problems and solutions. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Sender Policy Framework (SPF) [r]: Email authentication method that verifies the domain name in the envelope return address against the sender's IP address. ^[e]
• Sender ID [r]: Email authentication method that verifies the domain name in a "purported" address with the sender's IP address. ^[e]
• DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) [r]: Email authentication method that uses a digital signature to verify the content of a message. ^[e]
• Forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS) [r]: Email authentication method that verifies a domain name found by a reverse DNS query on the transmitter's IP address. ^[e]

• Reverse MX (RMX) [r]: Email authentication method that became a basis of SPF and Sender ID. ^[e]
• Designated Mailers Protocol (DMP) [r]: Email authentication method that became a basis of SPF and Sender ID. ^[e]
• Certified Server Validation (CSV) [r]: Email authentication method that verifies the hostname of an SMTP transmitter against that transmitter's IP address. ^[e])

• Kerberos [r]: A protocol using a central server to provide two clients with a shared session key, without either client having to publish a public key. ^[e]
• Transport Layer Security (TLS) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) [r]: E-mail encryption package created by Phillip Zimmerman. ^[e]