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Google Tech Talks
December, 5 2007
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an
emerging IETF standard (RFC
4871) to authenticate sending domains in SMTP
mail. It is designed
to be scalable, extensible, back-compatible,
and adoptable without
any flag days.
This talk will cover the background of sender
domain authentication
in general and DKIM in particular, details of
how DKIM works, and
other issues that DKIM brings up, notably
sender accreditation and
reputation and receiver policy. Sendmail's
Open Source
implementation of DKIM will also be
discussed.
Speaker: Eric Allman
As Sendmail's Chief Science Officer and
co-founder, Eric Allman leads the company's
technology strategy and direction. Allman
authored sendmail, the world's first Internet
Mail program, in 1981 while at the University
of California at Berkeley. He continues to
spearhead sendmail.org, the global team of
volunteers that maintain and support the
sendmail Open Source platform.
At the forefront of industry-leading trends
and technology, Allman is currently a leader
of the movement to adopt an international
standard for Sender Domain Authentication.
Allman, backed by a cross-industry group of
companies (Cisco, Yahoo, PGP, et. al.),
co-authored the draft specification for
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and
submitted it to the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF).
Before joining Sendmail, Allman served as CTO
for Sift, Inc., which is now part of 24/7
Media, Inc. He was lead developer and
provided a large-scale research software
infrastructure on the Mammoth project at U.C.
Berkeley. Allman has contributed as a senior
developer at the International Computer
Science Institute to neural network systems
design. Allman was also Chief Programmer on
the INGRES Relational Database Management
System and an early contributor to Berkeley
UNIX, authoring syslog, tset, the troff -me
macros, and trek in addition to sendmail. For
several years, he has co-authored the "C
Advisor" column for UNIX Review magazine. He
was formerly a member of the Board of
Directors of USENIX Association and is
currently a member of the ACM Queue Editorial
Review Board.
Allman holds an Masters of Science degree in
Computer Science from the University of
California at Berkeley.
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