The goal of the new SMTP Strict Transport Security mechanism is to ensure that encrypted email traffic is not vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
By Lucian Constantin
Engineers from some of the world’s largest email service providers have banded together to improve the security of email traffic traversing the Internet.
Devised by engineers from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Comcast, LinkedIn and 1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology, the SMTP Strict Transport Security is a new mechanism that allows email providers to define policies and rules for establishing encrypted email communications.
The new mechanism is defined in a draft that was published late last week for consideration as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard.
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