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Distribution Lists
Local
Exploder
Remote Exploder
Distribution Lists :
Local Exploder
List
Recipient 1
Recipient 3
Local Exploder
Distribution Lists :
Remote Exploder
Allows you to send to a list whose membership you are not allowed
to know.
If distribution are organized geographically, you need to send one
copy of message over expensive link to remote area.
When distribution list is longer than message, its more efficient.
Parallelism is exploited if distribution consists of distributions.
Recipient 1
Recipient 3
Remote Exploder
Store and forward …
MTA (Mail Transfer Agents)
MTA
MTA
MTA
MTA
UA (User Agent)
MTA UA (User Agent)
What about Email Security ?
Privacy Containment
Authentication Audit
Integrity Accounting
Non-repudiation Self Destruct
Proof of submission Message Sequence
Proof of delivery integrity
Message flow
confidentiality
Anonymity
Email Security
Privacy
End to End Privacy
If Alice wants to send Message to Bob, Carol
Choose a Random no. ‘S’
Encrypt message using ‘S’
S{m}
Encrypt ‘S’ with Each user’s Key
Bob’s name : KBob {S}
Carol’s name: KCarol {S}
Message sent:
To : Bob, Carol, Ted
From : Alice
Key-info: Bob-234234525432
Key-info: Carol-739873243348
Msg-info: 2h42h34ljh758gj57g546jh7g4j5hv67rgfdgddg
With Source
Authentication
Without Source
Authentication
Is Message integrity
Required ?
Email Security
Non Repudiation
Based on Public Keys:
Alice includes her public key signature on message
digest of message using her private key.
Only Alice can sign message digest (since she knows
Private key). Anyone knowing Alice’s public key can
verify message.
Based on Private Keys:
Select a trusted service common to both Alice and
Bob (say
Notary N)
N computes ‘Seal’ on message using a secret quantity
SN
Email Security
Non Repudiation
Plausible Deniability based on public key
Alicepicks secret key ‘S’
Encrypts S with Bob’s Public key getting {S}
Bob
Concept of Spam
Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging
systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk
messages.