Spam attacks: p2p to the rescue

We propose a decentralized privacy-preserving approach to spam filtering. Our solution exploits robust digests to identify messages that are a slight variation of one another and a peer-to-peer architecture between mail servers to collaboratively share knowledge about spam. Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.2.0 [ComputersCommunication Networks]: General ?Security and protection; C.2.4 [Computers-Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems ?Security and protection General Terms: Security, Design

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefano Paraboschi, Pierangela Samarati, Andrea Tironi, Luca Zaniboni
• Keywords: Decentralized Privacy-preserving Approach, Internet Technology, Protection General Terms, Slight Variation, WWW 2004