Mark Delany is an Australian computer programmer and consultant specializing in

e-mail Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic ( digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant ...

infrastructure and

anti-spam techniques Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) as opposed to ...

. He is the chief architect and inventor of

DomainKeys DomainKeys (informally ''DK'') is a deprecated e-mail authentication system designed by Yahoo to verify the domain name of an e-mail sender and the message integrity. Aspects of DomainKeys, along with parts of Identified Internet Mail, were combine ...

, an

e-mail authentication Email authentication, or validation, is a collection of techniques aimed at providing verifiable information about the origin of email messages by validating the domain ownership of any message transfer agents (MTA) who participated in transferring ...

system designed to verify the

DNS domain The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed naming system for computers, services, and other resources in the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It associates various information with domain names assigned t ...

of an

sender and the

message integrity Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorize ...

. Mark is one of the authors of

DomainKeys Identified Mail DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication method designed to detect forged sender addresses in email (email spoofing), a technique often used in phishing and email spam. DKIM allows the receiver to check that an email claimed ...

, a development of DomainKeys. He was also lead architect for

Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Mail is an email service launched on October 8, 1997, by the American company Yahoo (2017–present), Yahoo, Inc. The service is free for personal use, with an optional monthly fee for additional features. Business email was previously av ...

References

External links

A Vision Splendid: The History of Australian Computing
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