Strathclyde ANTI-PHISHING Scam Solutions
Strathclyde University Associates - Of the following solutions, the first two are ‘corporate’ while the following two are
‘end-user’ in nature.
Christopher Cranston, Department of Computer and Information Sciences,...
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Strathclyde ANTI-PHISHING Scam Solutions
Strathclyde University Associates - Of the following solutions, the first two are ‘corporate’ while the following two are
‘end-user’ in nature.
Christopher Cranston, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow.
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Digitally Signed Email
Digitally signed emails allow the recipient to verify that the sender information is genuine.
This also lets the recipient
know that the message has not been modified in transit.
These guarantees are extremely useful in the context of
phishing, as they prevent individuals from impersonating established organizations in phishing emails.
Popular digital
signature standards include OpenPGP and S/MIME, although they are incompatible with each other.
These facilities
can be used with mail clients such as Outlook, Navigator and Eudora.
At first glance, digitally signed emails appear well suited to combating the phishing problem.
However, to date very
few organizations wi
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