DomainKeys

DomainKeys definition - hacker
An anti-spam software application released by Yahoo! in 2005. By using a combination of public and private keys to authenticate the senderÂ’s domain, this software is supposed to reduce the likelihood that a spammer or a cracker could fake the domain sending address.

See Also: Authentication; Key; Spam; Spamming/Scrolling.

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Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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