Paper 2003/071 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2003/071 ↗

How to Protect Against a Militant Spammer

Markus Jakobsson
John Linn
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.

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Publication info
Preprint.
History
2003-04-18: last updated
2003-04-18: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2003/071
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/071}
}
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