Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

Re:Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M by florent42 on Friday August 24, 2018 @05:30PM (#17838014)

If you are talking about SPF and DKIM, none of them verify the sender. The former indicates which IP adresses are allowed to send a email from for a specific domain name. The latter lets you verify that the email originated from the domain. But not from the sender itself.

If you were talking about PGP signatures, ignore my previous words :)

The issue you see in SIP predates voice over IP. PSTN suffers from the very same issue.

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Re:Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M by im3w1l on Sunday August 26, 2018 @12:11PM (#17846483)

Well if you get an email from [email protected] and the SPF and DKIM check out then it means that the mail really came from somemail and they have had the chance to verify that xxx is authorized to send the email with e.g. a password. The system is not 100% foolproof but it's good enough when working with reputable or selfhosted email services. It's way, way better than "anyone can trivially pretend to be anyone"

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