Spam filtering with sender authentication network

Dalkılıç G., Sipahi D.

COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, cilt.98, ss.72-79, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 98
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.comcom.2016.12.008
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.72-79
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Authentication, Electronic mail, Message systems, Spam, Unsolicited electronic mail, MECHANISMS
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Unsolicited commercial and non-commercial e-mails occupy the Internet bandwidth redundantly, as well as the recipient's time and energy. In the fight against those spam e-mails, origin based spam filtering gained importance because of the low resource demands. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) protocol is one of the well-known origin based spam filtering techniques. In our study, Sender Authentication Network has been developed to extend the narrow utilization of the SPF technique. By analyzing the IP addresses in A and MX records, their relation with the IP address in SPF record is investigated. If the SPF record does not exist, a new one is created. After getting feedbacks from the volunteers for the false-positive and false-negative results, and applying a well-known spam filter to the contemporary dataset, we concluded that by low resource consumption, our method extracts spam e-mails faster than the present popular spam filtering methods. The results have acceptable false-positive and false-negative values. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.