• DocumentCode
    2704321
  • Title

    Efficient directory harvest attacks

  • Author

    Vajda, B.B.I.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Telecommun., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ.
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    20-20 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    62
  • Lastpage
    68
  • Abstract
    In this paper the e-mail directory harvest attacks (DHA) are investigated. We elaborated a method for optimizing the wordlist size used by the attacker in a resource limited environment. We analyzed the results and proved that our method is optimal. We also present an efficient countermeasure against DHA
  • Keywords
    authorisation; computer crime; message authentication; unsolicited e-mail; dictionary attack; e-mail directory harvest attack; online brute-force attack; wordlist size optimization method; Computer crime; Dictionaries; Electronic mail; Environmental economics; Humans; Laboratories; Optimization methods; Protection; Prototypes; Security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Collaborative Technologies and Systems, 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    St Louis, MO
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2387-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCST.2005.1553295
  • Filename
    1553295
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2704321