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To deal with the junk e-mail problem caused by the e-mail address leakage for a majority of Internet users, this paper presents a new privacy protection model in which the e-mail address of the user is treated as a piece of privacy information concealed. Through an interaction pattern that involves three parties and uses an e-mail address code in the place of an e-mail address, the proposed model can prevent the e-mail address from being leaked, thus effectively resolving the junk e-mail problem. We compare the proposed anti-spam method with the filtering technology based on machine learning. The result shows that 100% spams can be filtered out in our scheme, indicating the effectiveness of the proposed anti-spam method.
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Foundation item: Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1736116, 61272500, 60373075), and the National High-Tech R&D Program (863 Program) (2015AA017204)
Biography: ZHANG Yuqiang, male, Engineer, Ph.D., research direction: network security.
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Zhang, Y., He, J. & Xu, J. A new anti-spam model based on e-mail address concealment technique. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 23, 79–83 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-018-1297-y
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