Understanding forgery properties of spam delivery paths

7th Annual Collaboration, Electronic Messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference, CEAS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sanchez, Fernando ^a   Duan, Zhenhai ^a   Dong, Yingfei ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONTROL EFFORT; DELIVERY PATH; EMAIL SENDER AUTHENTICATIONS; EMPIRICAL EXPERIMENTS; NETWORK DOMAINS; SPAM FILTERING; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TRACE INFORMATION;

INTERNET;

EID: 84904815134     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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