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Digital certificates to fight e-mail hoaxes at Yale |
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Yale University considers implementing digital certificates technology to prevent E-mail Hoaxes.
An e-mail hoax that caused some students to miss classes and angered the administration could now lead to changes in Information Technology Services policy.
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Yale Daily News reports: “Instead of using a Web site, Clark said the use of digital certificates could be a more useful way of ‘making official e-mails look more official’…When you receive a certificate -- which is very difficult to forge -- an e-mail client is going to tell you whether it is a valid certificate".
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Easier (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Thursday, March 06 @ 11:05:39 EST | This will probably just make it easier to perform a hoax, since most people don't know how to properly check the validity of a digital certificate. |
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