TY - GEN
T1 - An Open Digest-based Technique for Spam Detection
AU - Damiani, Ernesto
AU - De Capitani Di Vimercati, Sabrina
AU - Paraboschi, Stefano
AU - Samarati, Plerangela
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the EU within the PRIME Project under contract IST-2002-507591 and by the Italian MIUR within the KIWI and MAPS projects.
Publisher Copyright:
© (2004) by the International Society for Computers and Their Applications All rights reserved.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - A promising anti-spam technique consists in collecting users opinions that given email messages are spam and using this collective judgment to block message propagation to other users. To be effective, this strategy requires a way to identify similarity among email messages, even if the program used by the spammer to generate the messages may try to obfuscate their common origin. In this paper, we investigate the issues arising in the design of a digest-based spam detection mechanism, which has to satisfy many conflicting requirements: protect message confidentiality, be public, and prove difficult or expensive to fool by obfuscation techniques that automatically introduce differences into the same base spam message. We show that an open digest function is able to satisfy the above requirements and contribute to the fight against spam.
AB - A promising anti-spam technique consists in collecting users opinions that given email messages are spam and using this collective judgment to block message propagation to other users. To be effective, this strategy requires a way to identify similarity among email messages, even if the program used by the spammer to generate the messages may try to obfuscate their common origin. In this paper, we investigate the issues arising in the design of a digest-based spam detection mechanism, which has to satisfy many conflicting requirements: protect message confidentiality, be public, and prove difficult or expensive to fool by obfuscation techniques that automatically introduce differences into the same base spam message. We show that an open digest function is able to satisfy the above requirements and contribute to the fight against spam.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80054800465
T3 - 17th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems 2004, PDCS 2004
SP - 559
EP - 564
BT - 17th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems 2004, PDCS 2004
A2 - Bader, David A.
A2 - Khokhar, Ashfaq A.
T2 - 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, PDCS 2004
Y2 - 15 September 2004 through 17 September 2004
ER -