Chairman Pai Proposes Mandating STIR/SHAKEN To Combat Robocalls

Sat Mar 7 19:59:26 UTC 2020

On 3/7/20 11:54 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Has encryption ever solved scams/fraud/spam?
>
> Extended Validation SSL Certificates - Just pay a Certificate 
> Authority more money
>
> DKIM signed email - Just pay a mail provider more money to blast email
>
> SWIFT encrypted payments - Just find the weakest bank somewhere in the 
> world
>

it takes an ecosystem, authentication being one tool. before we did dkim 
practically nobody was using smtp auth. i would like to think that the 
accountability end of dkim's "blame us" had some effect, but it was 
probably in the water at the time.

Mike