Yahoo and Cisco are teaming up to help fight spam, collaborating on authentication technology in the hopes that others will adopt a new security standard, NewsFactor reports.

Cisco and Yahoo pledged to develop a specification combining their respective cryptographic-based security offerings: Yahoo’s DomainKeys and Internet Identified Mail from Cisco.

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