Multi-Recipient E-mail Messages: Privacy Issues and Possible Solutions

Chain and multi-recipient e-mails pose significant security and privacy threats such as phishing and the spread of Trojan horses. They also increase the chances of receiving spam e-mails. E-mails sent to multiple recipients at a time result in unwanted exposure of e-mail address to multiple recipi...

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Autores principales:	SHEIKH, S. A., BANDAY, M. T.
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Publicado:	Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava 2021
Materias:	electronic mail information security privacy unified messaging unsolicited electronic mail Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering TK1-9971 Computer engineering. Computer hardware TK7885-7895
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:53dca6976d0045ecb1eeca8b5f35c5792021-12-05T17:03:49ZMulti-Recipient E-mail Messages: Privacy Issues and Possible Solutions1582-74451844-760010.4316/AECE.2021.04013https://doaj.org/article/53dca6976d0045ecb1eeca8b5f35c5792021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4316/AECE.2021.04013https://doaj.org/toc/1582-7445https://doaj.org/toc/1844-7600Chain and multi-recipient e-mails pose significant security and privacy threats such as phishing and the spread of Trojan horses. They also increase the chances of receiving spam e-mails. E-mails sent to multiple recipients at a time result in unwanted exposure of e-mail address to multiple recipients. The recipients of chain e-mails may include spammers or e-mail addresses of users whose e-mail account or device may have been compromised, thereby, exposing all e-mail addresses to spammers. Forwarding or sending a multi-recipient e-mail in a chain further increases the exposure of e-mail addresses to spammers. This paper discusses chain e-mails, multi-recipient e-mails and crucial security and privacy threats they pose to legitimate e-mail user. It also discusses various possible mechanisms to mitigate these threats and investigates their effectiveness. This study proposes a novel technique to counter these security risks by enhancing the default behaviour of e-mail client, SMPT server and SMTP protocol. The proposed technique has been implemented in the Java programming language which showed promising results against unnecessary exposure of multiple e-mail addresses while sending an e-mail to multiple recipients.SHEIKH, S. A.BANDAY, M. T.Stefan cel Mare University of Suceavaarticleelectronic mailinformation securityprivacyunified messagingunsolicited electronic mailElectrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineeringTK1-9971Computer engineering. Computer hardwareTK7885-7895ENAdvances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol 21, Iss 4, Pp 115-126 (2021)
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topic	electronic mail information security privacy unified messaging unsolicited electronic mail Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering TK1-9971 Computer engineering. Computer hardware TK7885-7895
spellingShingle	electronic mail information security privacy unified messaging unsolicited electronic mail Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering TK1-9971 Computer engineering. Computer hardware TK7885-7895 SHEIKH, S. A. BANDAY, M. T. Multi-Recipient E-mail Messages: Privacy Issues and Possible Solutions
description	Chain and multi-recipient e-mails pose significant security and privacy threats such as phishing and the spread of Trojan horses. They also increase the chances of receiving spam e-mails. E-mails sent to multiple recipients at a time result in unwanted exposure of e-mail address to multiple recipients. The recipients of chain e-mails may include spammers or e-mail addresses of users whose e-mail account or device may have been compromised, thereby, exposing all e-mail addresses to spammers. Forwarding or sending a multi-recipient e-mail in a chain further increases the exposure of e-mail addresses to spammers. This paper discusses chain e-mails, multi-recipient e-mails and crucial security and privacy threats they pose to legitimate e-mail user. It also discusses various possible mechanisms to mitigate these threats and investigates their effectiveness. This study proposes a novel technique to counter these security risks by enhancing the default behaviour of e-mail client, SMPT server and SMTP protocol. The proposed technique has been implemented in the Java programming language which showed promising results against unnecessary exposure of multiple e-mail addresses while sending an e-mail to multiple recipients.
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title	Multi-Recipient E-mail Messages: Privacy Issues and Possible Solutions
title_short	Multi-Recipient E-mail Messages: Privacy Issues and Possible Solutions
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Multi-Recipient E-mail Messages: Privacy Issues and Possible Solutions

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