After reading the great post by Sergio I’m doing a series of posts talking about e-mail security. I’m going to start from the beginning, explaining how does e-mail currently work, some things about the protocols used, to have a bit of background of it.
The layout of the series will be, more or less, like this:
- E-mail: how it works. Protocols.
- Undesired mail: which, why, how.
- Spam: what is it? How to detect it?
- Phishing: what is it? How to avoid it?
- Virus: do they arrive by e-mail?
- Chain letters: hoaxes and rumours.
- E-mail privacy: plain text. Digital signature.
Depending on the length I might do more than one post about each of these points. If you think I should talk about something more related to e-mail feel free to comment.
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