Title :
SpamCooker: A Method for Deterring Unsolicited Electronic Communications
Author :
Denny, Nathan ; El Hourani, Theodore ; Denny, Jaime ; Bissmeyer, Scott ; Irby, David
Abstract :
We present here a method and a system that implements an unsolicited commercial email (also known as UCE or spam) countermeasure. Our method is based on distributed access lists and a challenge-response protocol where challenges are computationally complex problems. These challenges require the spammer to consume finite computational resources as a prerequisite for the delivery of an unsolicited message. We produce an economic analysis to demonstrate the capability of our method to disrupt the profitability of spam
Keywords :
computational complexity; security of data; unsolicited e-mail; SpamCooker; challenge-response protocol; distributed access lists; spam; unsolicited commercial email; unsolicited electronic communications; Access protocols; Business communication; Costs; Cybernetics; Distributed computing; Electronic countermeasures; Electronic mail; IP networks; Profitability; Unsolicited electronic mail;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: New Generations, 2006. ITNG 2006. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2497-4
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2006.125
