Paper 2003/071
How to Protect Against a Militant Spammer
Markus Jakobsson, John Linn, and Joy Algesheimer
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.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
PS
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. N/A
- Keywords
- emaillight-weightspam
- Contact author(s)
- mjakobsson @ rsasecurity com
- History
- 2003-04-18: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2003/071
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/071,
author = {Markus Jakobsson and John Linn and Joy Algesheimer},
title = {How to Protect Against a Militant Spammer},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2003/071},
year = {2003},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/071}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/071}
}
