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Email Security
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 4
04/18/2012

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Term
Where does the majority of SPAM Come from?
Definition
Botnets
Term
What are some new techniques for spam?
Definition
PDF/ MP3 Spam -> Combining HTML elements to fool users
Term
What are the 6 desired email privacy enhancement services?
Definition
Confidentiality
Authentication
Message integrity protection
Non-repudiation
Relaibility
Security
Term
What is the threat to reliability of email?
Definition
Spam filters
Term
Name two real sources of threats for email
Definition
SPAM
Phishing
Term
What does digitally signed mail provide (3)
Definition
Proof secret key was used
Proof of ID if secrey ks is signed
Assurance that the message wasnt modified after it was sent
Term
What does S/MIME stand for
Definition
Secure Multipurpose internet mail extensions
Term
What was MIME designed for?
Definition
Sending attachements
Term
What certificates does SMIME use
Definition
X.509 public key certs
Term
How do SMIME and PGP differ?
Definition
SMIME uses CAs, PGP uses a web of trust
Term
4 Techniques for email security
Definition
Connection Filtering
Address Filtering
Content filtering
Challenge / response
Term
What is blacklisting?
Definition
A list of addresses not allowed to receive email from
Term
What is grey listing?
Definition
Receive an email
Wait a while
See if it's resent, if not then forward it
Term
How does challenge / response work?
Definition
Send an email to check if a user is real
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