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Patrick Peterson	Write for Electronic Design
Patrick Peterson is the chief technology officer of IronPort Systems. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He also holds patents related to antennas, RF communications, and e-mail authentication techniques. Email address: ppeterson@ironport.com
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May 25, 2006 [POV: Point Of View]
E-mail Is Broke! Authentication Can Fix It
Despite 1 billion people using e-mail every day and 80% of office workers valuing e-mail above the telephone, no other electronic medium suffers so greatly from abuse. Some 80 billion of the 100 billion e-mails sent each day are spam, ranging from the merely irritating to malevolent viruses to thieving phishing. We've had almost 25 years since the invention of e-mail to clean it up, but problems increase. Among the core problems is message spoofing, which phishing e-mails use to...