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Privacy-Aware Collaborative Spam Filtering

This document discusses a privacy-aware framework called ALPACAS for collaborative spam filtering. It addresses challenges of privacy protection and resilience to camouflage attacks when designing collaborative anti-spam systems. ALPACAS uses a feature-preserving message transformation technique and privacy-preserving protocol to allow entities to share spam/ham information while protecting privacy. It provides stronger privacy and better filtering accuracy than existing approaches like DCC filtering.

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Privacy-Aware Collaborative Spam Filtering

This document discusses a privacy-aware framework called ALPACAS for collaborative spam filtering. It addresses challenges of privacy protection and resilience to camouflage attacks when designing collaborative anti-spam systems. ALPACAS uses a feature-preserving message transformation technique and privacy-preserving protocol to allow entities to share spam/ham information while protecting privacy. It provides stronger privacy and better filtering accuracy than existing approaches like DCC filtering.

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Privacy-Aware Collaborative Spam Filtering

Abstract: In this project we fully deal about the concept of enormous spam e-mails directed at large numbers of recipients, designing effective collaborative anti-spam systems raises several important research challenges. Since e-mails may contain confidential information, any collaborative anti-spam approach has to guarantee strong privacy protection to the participating entities. Second, the continuously evolving nature of spam demands the collaborative techniques to be resilient to various kinds of camouflage attacks. Third, the collaboration has to be lightweight, efficient, and scalable. Toward addressing these challenges, to achieve all the above statements we create a frame work called as privacy-aware framework for collaborative spam filtering) through which we control the spam attacks. In designing the ALPACAS framework, we make two unique contributions. The first is a featurepreserving message transformation technique that is highly resilient against the latest kinds of spam attacks. The second is a privacy-preserving protocol that provides enhanced privacy guarantees to the participating entities. Existing system: Existing system uses DCC spam filtering. Filtering effect used in the DCC is not enough to remove the unwanted spam in the emails which make the users and organizations not comfortable for sharing information about their e-mails until and unless they are assured that no one else (human or machine) would become aware of the actual contents of their e-mails. This genuine concern for privacy has deterred users and organizations from participating in any large-scale. Existing system disadvantage: ALPACAS have 10 times better false negative rates than both DCC and Bog filter, a well-known Bayesian-based spam filter. DCC suffers from two major drawbacks: First, since hashing schemes like MD5 generate completely different hash values even if the message is altered by a single byte, the DCC scheme is successful only if exactly the same email is received at multiple collaborative servers. DCC develops fuzzy checksums to improve the robustness by selecting parts of the messages based on a predefined dictionary. However, spammers can get around this technique by attaching a few different words to each e-mail. Second, the DCC scheme does not completely address the privacy issue.

Proposed system: The proposed prototype structure is based on the distributed hash table (DHT) paradigm. ALPACAS has two unique contributions: 1) We present a resilient fingerprint generation technique called feature-preserving transformation that effectively captures the similarity information of the e-mails into their respective encodings. 2) For further enforcing the privacy protection, a privacy preserving protocol is designed to control the amount of information to be shared among the collaborating entities and the manner in which the sharing is done. Proposed system advantage: 1) A feature-preserving transformation technique encodes the important characteristics of the e-mail into a set of hash values such that it is computationally impossible to reverse engineer the original e-mail. 2) A privacy preserving protocol enables the participating entities to share information about spam/ham messages while protecting them from inference-based privacy breaches. Modules Designing mailing system. Creation of spam knowledgeable database. Filtering of spam in mailing system. key generation Appending key with message. Authentication of key in server. Display of message.

Hardware requirements: Processor Ram Monitor Hard disk Floppy drive Cddrive Keyboard Mouse Software requirements: Front End Back End Tools Used : Java, Swing : MS Access : net beans : : pentium iv 2.6 ghz : 512 mb dd ram : 15 color : 20 gb 1.44 mb : lg 52x : standard 102 keys : 3 buttons

Operating System : WindowsXP

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