[epub] First Monday: Using digital signatures to solve the spam problem

[Anne Hugo <Anne.Hugo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

re recent threads

> The September 2003 issue of First Monday (volume 8, number 9)
> at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_9/
>
> includes this article:
>
> "Giving e-mail back to the users: Using digital signatures to solve the spam
> problem", by Trevor Tompkins and Dan Handley*
> http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_9/tompkins/
>
> Abstract:
>
> This paper argues that current legislative and private attempts to 
> stop spam are either ineffective, or involve unacceptable tradeoffs. 
> The key to solving the spam problem is recognizing the importance of 
> e-mail authentication and the granting of permissions. Properly 
> used, digital signatures can easily authenticate e-mail for 
> effective spam control. The ability to manage public keys for 
> verifying digital signatures provides each e-mail user the 
> individual power to control who communicates with her and can 
> therefore completely eliminate the practice of spamming. Finally, we 
> recommend that software developers build the requisite capabilities 
> for managing public keys into their e-mail programs. We argue for a 
> technological solution as opposed to government legislation.
>
> Ends with info about the authors:
>
> Trevor Tompkins is the founder of SPAMSolution.org a private 
> organization dedicated towards the technological solution of SPAM 
> through the use of digital signatures. He holds a B.S. in Economics 
> and is working on his M.S. thesis in Logic and Computation, both 
> from Carnegie Mellon University.
> E-mail: http://spamsolution.org/email/trevor.shtml.
>
> Dan Handley holds an M.S. in Logic and Computation from Carnegie 
> Mellon University and is a researcher in the Computational Systems 
> Biology Group at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also currently a 
> Ph.D. student in Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh.
> E-mail: http://spamsolution.org/email/dan.shtml.


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