Comment Am I Missing Something? (Score 1) 340

by rhoads on Friday January 09, 2004 @06:09PM (#7933498) Attached to: AOL Now Publishing SPF Records

I'm no expert, but why didn't we slap this problem in the face long ago with digital certificates?

I'm sending a piece of mail ... here's my cert ... you trust the root CA. If I'm known to be a spammer, blacklist me ... bada boom!

Is it an implementation problem? Could authentication be implemented on top of the existing system and phased in?

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