In 1992, Dwork and Naor proposed that e-mail messages be accompanied by easy-to-check proofs of computational effort in order to discourage junk e-mail, now known as spam. They pro...
A key idea in cryptography is using hard functions in order to obtain secure schemes. The theory of hard functions (e.g. one-way functions) has been a great success story, and the ...
Image spam is a new obfuscating method which spammers invented to more effectively bypass conventional text based spam filters. In this paper, we extract local invariant features ...
Haiqiang Zuo, Weiming Hu, Ou Wu, Yunfei Chen, Guan...
A promising anti-spam technique consists in collecting users opinions that given email messages are spam and using this collective judgment to block message propagation to other u...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
Almost all current anti spam measures are reactive, filtering being the most common. But to react means always to be one step behind. Reaction requires to predict the next action ...