Researchers from VeriSign and the U.S. government are looking at ways to make email more secure through domain names. The idea is to create a new set of security protocols built around the domain
name system. Emails would have signed and unsigned versions. Both would employ Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure messages sent between email servers, as well as DANE
security protocol to protect the TLS keys. The signed versions would get another layer of security through S/MIME on the end user's client device.
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