AOL to Support Sender ID E-Mail Standard
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America Online Inc. will support a new, modified version of the Sender ID e-mail authentication specification that is being submitted to the IETF for consideration Monday.
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Microsoft&#39;s earlier attempts at a specification for Sender ID, the technology which is used for verifying the authenticity of e-mail with Internet Protocol records
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WASHINGTON - EarthLink Inc. and Yahoo Inc. said today they would begin tests of a new anti-spam technology that encodes digital signatures into customers&#39; e-mail as a way to separate legitimate messages from unwanted spam.
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com. The Apache Software Foundation, developers of the popular open-source Apache web server, said on Thursday that it wouldn&#39;t support the proposed anti-spam standard Sender ID, because the licensing terms set by Microsoft Corp.
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America Online is testing a Web-based e-mail service that will compete with Yahoo Mail, Microsoft&#39;s Hotmail and Google&#39;s Gmail.
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Yahoo appears close to implementing&#160;OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites.Yahoo controls a domain me.yahoo.com, which shows a short message indicating the company will act as an identity provider for OpenID.Code on pages at Flickr.com, owned by Yahoo, could also let a person use their Flickr login and profile for logging into other OpenID-compatible sites. The code can be seen by viewing the source of Flickr photostream pages, and points to&#160;https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth.OpenID, an open-source project, has gained support&#160;from two other major Internet players, Microsoft and Google. However, those companies are not widely providing support on their sites for OpenID yet.But an early implementation of OpenID by Yahoo could provide a spark for broader support, some say.&quot;I expect Yahoo&#39;s implementation to be a major influence in encouraging OpenID 2 adoption,&quot; wrote Simon Willison, a freelance Web consultant and developer who used to work for Flickr. In January last year, Willison launched idproxy.net, a Web site that links Yahoo IDs and OpenIDs.OpenID is referred to as a decentralized system since no one company or entity controls all of the identity information. It gives users more power to determine who they want to share their identity with and avoids the potential security problems of having a massive amount of data locked up in a single database. The system is also free.Web sites acting as an identity provider for OpenID give users a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator). When a person encounters another Web site supporting OpenID, they can enter that URL along with the password they have registered with the identity provider, which is then verified in order to login at the new site.The person is then allowed to carry their profile or other information into the new Web site, a concept known as single sign-on. It means that people may need fewer passwords but would be able to securely share their data and login on more Web sites.A variety of companies and Web sites are supporting OpenID, such as AOL, LiveJournal, Technorati and mobile operator Orange, which is owned by France T&#233;l&#233;com, according to the OpenID Web site. Hundreds of other Web sites are also using OpenID.Yahoo could not be reached for comment.&#160;
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SOFTWARE KING Microsoft&#39;s anti-open source obsession seems to have killed chances of its anti-Spam Sender ID getting accepted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard.
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.
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AOL is the latest and largest company to back away from Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID software, designed to cut spam by identifying the source of the e-mail.
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Washington: EarthLink Inc. and Yahoo Inc. have said they would begin tests of a new anti-spam technology that encodes digital signatures into customers&#39; e-mail as a way to separate legitimate messages from unwanted spam.
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Less than a week after a standards-setting group rejected Microsoft&#39;s scheme to stymie spam, America Online added to the company&#39;s woes by dumping the software giant&#39;s proposed Sender ID.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has turned down Microsoft&#39;s technical contribution to the Sender ID proposal. A combination of Microsoft&#39;s Caller ID and a domain authentication scheme devised by
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AOL said in a statement that its previous decision against Sender ID was made because the first version was not backwards compatible, meaning that &quot;all of the development work AOL and many others
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SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp was dealt a setback on Tuesday after the Internet Engineering Task Force decided not to adopt Microsoft&#39;s e-mail sender ID standard that would make it easier for Internet providers to block unwanted junk e-mail.
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America Online subscribers will receive a raft of new and enhanced security services as part of their standard package with the launch of AOL 9.0 Security Edition, the latest upgrade of the company&#39;s fee-based, consumer-focused online service.
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A Microsoft-backed proposal for verifying the source of e-mail has been shelved by the Internet engineers working to turn it from specification to standard, in a final blow for antispam technology Sender ID.
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Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites.