Three Ways to Start Using Great DANE.
Let’s disrupt the status quo of email insecurity.
Get involved and be a part of the change.
Download + Integrate
Download and integrate the Great DANE software to the platform of your choice to secure your email.
Develop + Evolve
Analyze and enhance the Great DANE software. Build the extensions that we haven’t built yet.
Publish + Advance
Publish DANE SMIMEA records. Help us grow the community that’s changing the face of email security.
1972
First email system developed
270 Billion
Emails sent by Americans every day in 2017
0
Security mechanisms in standard email
Great DANE Suite of Software
The Engine
This open source powerhouse automates the authentication process using certificate retrieval from the DNS.
A stand-alone web server that provides an HTTP REST API that all other Great DANE components in our collection utilize.
Integrate it, improve it, enhance it.
More About the Engine
The Plug-Ins
To make the Engine accessible, so far we’ve integrated it with Horde Webmail and with Mozilla’s Thunderbird to kickstart your experimentation. Soon we’ll bring you Microsoft Exchange, but don’t wait for us. Join us and develop for your platform of choice or encourage your email provider to develop support for DANE SMIMEA.
More About the Plug-Ins
The Connector
If you manage your own domain, you’re probably wondering about scalability. The Connector enables the kind of scalability you need, automating the publishing process across your enterprise for each new user.
More About the ConnectorThe Tools
A resource for a seasoned developer or system admin that allows real-time testing of your Great DANE integration on any platform.
We think anyone should be able to achieve secure email
with anyone else, from anywhere
So we developed the software to make that happen
Resources + FAQs
What is Great DANE?
DANE stands for DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities. Great DANE is the first open source implementation of the DANE SMIMEA standard, which automatically secures email without user interaction using publicly available keys in the DNS. Read more about DANE on Wikipedia or from the IETF.
Why Great DANE?
Email encryption has been available since the 90’s, but it’s not easy so no one uses it. It’s manual and cumbersome. The Great DANE software automates the process.
Who is involved?
Our team and the software we’ve developed is a small part of a bigger initiative in motion. This concept is the brainchild of an IETF working group with an idea for a universal database of keys that would make encryption easier. The IETF’s mission was clear — make that idea into the standard that we so desperately needed to secure email. They engaged teams like ours, NIST, Secure 64 to be a part of this bleeding edge technology discovery and figure out how to make it a reality from a technology standpoint.
See Also:
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
This initiative is gaining speed and our library of guiding documentation, helpful technical resources, and industry articles can help shed light on what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.
Explore ResourcesDANE Community
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
An open community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers producing high quality, relevant technical documents to influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet.
Learn More About IETF
National Institute of Standards Technology Centers of Excellence
An interdisciplinary environment enabling partnerships with experts in critical technical areas to advance NIST’s mission to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness through the development of adoption of standards.
Learn More About The Centers of ExcellenceSpeaking your language?
Come be a part of the change and join the conversation on GitHub.