Blog
DANE vs DMARC: The Email Authentication Landscape
Tue, 02/02/2016
Lately, the question of DANE vs DMARC has been coming up quite a bit. While both DANE and DMARC involve “authentication”, there are significantly different things meant by each. Let’s start by addressing the underlying technologies.
DANE, or RFC6698, is intended to mitigate the threat of a man-in-the-middle intercepting encrypted communications by posing as one of the end points. A common vector...