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Re:Why is no one signing their emails? by stock_toaster on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:11AM (#19376691)
> However, as the blog rightly points out, having companies sign their emails would be a massive step in the right direction.

Isn't this what DKIM was supposed to be?

Re:Why is no one signing their emails? by gsich on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:16AM (#19376713)
Yes. But my guess is that even wrong/no signatures will land in your inbox. For Thunderbird there is an addon which will show you the validity of DKIM signatures

https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/dkim-verifi...

Re:Why is no one signing their emails? by repolfx on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:21AM (#19377325)
"It depends"

There is a sister standard to DKIM called DMARC that lets a domain publish instructions for what to do if unsigned emails are received. It can run in allow, report and deny mode. Report is useful, it asks the recipient to send it back to the domain which is helpful for large networks that may have many people and services sending mail on their behalf.

You can use this tool to compare gmail.com (ignore failed signatures) vs google.com (reject)

https://dmarcian.com/dmarc-inspector/

Thus google.com i.e. Google employee / service email is protected from From header forgery, but consumer Gmail isn't (too many people sending mail from non-Google SMTP servers).

Re:Why is no one signing their emails? by Vendan on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:36AM (#19379042)
It's worth noting that ignore/report is for the email server it's destined for. The server is supposed to send reports back to google ([email protected] specifically) about the failures and such.
Re:Why is no one signing their emails? by pilsetnieks on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:17AM (#19377004)
DKIM is for an entire domain, not individual addresses, though.
Re:Why is no one signing their emails? by Vendan on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:33AM (#19379013)
But it can work for individual addresses as well. For instance, gmail uses DKIM. If they only DKIM sign an email if the user is logged in as the address they are trying to send as, then boom, DKIM is proof that the email from is not forged, and the only way to bypass it is to hack the account.
Re:Why is no one signing their emails? by jhasse on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:34AM (#19379020)
Sure, but why would the SMTP server sign an email with the wrong login?