https://nerdsid.com/tags/email/Recent content in Email on Nerdsid.comHugoen-usFri, 06 Dec 2024 08:28:20 +0000https://nerdsid.com/posts/protect-your-email-with-rot47-encryption/Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:28:20 +0000https://nerdsid.com/posts/protect-your-email-with-rot47-encryption/<h2 id="potential-risks-with-sharing-email-in-plaintext">Potential risks with sharing email in plaintext</h2> <p>So, you want to share your email on your website, but you&rsquo;re worried about spam?</p> <p>Sharing your email address in plaintext (without any encryption) can be risky. When you post your email openly on a website or blog, it becomes visible to web crawlers and spambots. These bots scour the internet, collecting email addresses to send spam and unwanted marketing emails. Over time, this can lead to your inbox being flooded with irrelevant messages.</p>https://nerdsid.com/posts/demystifying-dkim-records/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:27:57 +0000https://nerdsid.com/posts/demystifying-dkim-records/<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Email has become a crucial way of communication in today&rsquo;s digital world. However, it&rsquo;s also a target for scammers and impersonators. Thus it is essential to have methods to verify that the messages we receive are genuine and have not been tampered with. That&rsquo;s where DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) records come into play. In this article, we will understand how DKIM records assist in safeguarding emails against tampering.</p> <h2 id="what-is-dkim">What is DKIM?</h2> <p>DKIM is an email security standard designed to make sure that an email that claims to have come from a specific domain was indeed authorized by the owner of that domain.</p>