An anti-spam scheme using pre-challenges

نویسندگان

  • Rodrigo Roman
  • Jianying Zhou
  • Javier López
چکیده

Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), or Spam, is nowadays an increasingly serious problem to email users. A number of anti-spam schemes have been proposed in the literature and some of them have been deployed in email systems, but the problem has not been well addressed. One of those schemes is challenge-response, in which a challenge, ranging from a simple mathematical problem to a hard-AI problem, is imposed on an email sender in order to forbid machine-based spam reaching receivers' mailboxes. However, such a scheme introduces new problems for the users, e.g., delay of service and denial of service. In this paper, we propose a pre-challenge scheme, which is based on the challengeresponse mechanism and takes advantage of some features of email systems. It assumes each user has a challenge that is defined by the user himself/herself and associated with his/her email address, in such a way that an email sender can simultaneously retrieve a new receiver's email address and challenge before sending an email in the first contact. Some new mechanisms are employed in our scheme to reach a good balance between security against spam and convenience to normal email users. Our scheme can be also used for protecting other messaging systems, like Instant Messaging and Blog comments.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computer Communications

دوره 29  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006