Inside MAPI
Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
The state of the email address
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
OpenDHT: a public DHT service and its uses
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
POST: a secure, resilient, cooperative messaging system
HOTOS'03 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 9
NSDI'06 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 3
Email-Based Identification and Authentication: An Alternative to PKI?
IEEE Security and Privacy
Ostra: leveraging trust to thwart unwanted communication
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Performance analysis of email systems under three types of attacks
Performance Evaluation
A collaboration-based autonomous reputation system for email services
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
SSLShader: cheap SSL acceleration with commodity processors
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
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We consider the problem of silent email loss in the Internet, where neither the sender nor the intended recipient is notified of the loss. Our detailed measurement study over several months shows a silent email loss rate of 0.71% to 1.02%. The silent loss of an important email can impose a high cost on users. We further show that spam filtering can be the significant cause of silent email loss, but not the sole cause. SureMail augments the existing SMTP-based email infrastructure with a notification system to make intended recipients aware of email they are missing. A notification is a short, fixed-format fingerprint of an email, constructed so as to preserve sender and recipient privacy, and prevent spoofing by spammers. SureMail is designed to be usable immediately by users without requiring the cooperation of their email providers, so it leaves the existing email infrastructure (including anti-spam infrastructure) untouched and does not require a PKI for email users. It places minimal demands on users, by automating the tasks of generating, retrieving, and verifying notifications. It alerts users only when there is actual email loss. Our prototype implementation demonstrates the effectiveness of SureMail in notifying recipients upon email loss.