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How to Protect Against a Militant Spammer

Authors:
Markus Jakobsson
John Linn
Joy Algesheimer
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/071
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Abstract: We consider how to avoid unsolicited e-mail -- so called spam -- in a stronger adversarial model than has previously been considered. Our primary concern is the proposal of an architecture and of protocols preventing against successful spamming attacks launched by a strong attacker. This attacker is assumed to control the communication media and to be capable of corrupting large numbers of protocol participants. Additionally, the same architecture can be used as a basis to support message integrity and privacy, though this is not a primary goal of our work. This results in a simple and efficient solution that is largely backwards-compatible, and which addresses many of the concerns surrounding e-mail communication.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2003-11787,
  title={How to Protect Against a Militant Spammer},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={applications / email, light-weight, spam},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/071},
  note={N/A mjakobsson@rsasecurity.com 12157 received 15 Apr 2003},
  author={Markus Jakobsson and John Linn and Joy Algesheimer},
  year=2003
}