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Enhancing collaborative spam detection with bloom filters. / Yan, Jeff; Cho, Pook Leong.
Computer Security Applications Conference, 2006. ACSAC '06. 22nd Annual. IEEE, 2006. p. 414-428 4041186.

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Yan, J & Cho, PL 2006, Enhancing collaborative spam detection with bloom filters. in Computer Security Applications Conference, 2006. ACSAC '06. 22nd Annual., 4041186, IEEE, pp. 414-428, 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC 2006, Miami Beach, FL, United States, 11/12/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSAC.2006.26

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Yan, J., & Cho, P. L. (2006). Enhancing collaborative spam detection with bloom filters. In Computer Security Applications Conference, 2006. ACSAC '06. 22nd Annual (pp. 414-428). Article 4041186 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSAC.2006.26

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Yan J, Cho PL. Enhancing collaborative spam detection with bloom filters. In Computer Security Applications Conference, 2006. ACSAC '06. 22nd Annual. IEEE. 2006. p. 414-428. 4041186 doi: 10.1109/ACSAC.2006.26

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Yan, Jeff ; Cho, Pook Leong. / Enhancing collaborative spam detection with bloom filters. Computer Security Applications Conference, 2006. ACSAC '06. 22nd Annual. IEEE, 2006. pp. 414-428

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abstract = "Signature-based collaborative spam detection (SCSD) systems provide a promising solution addressing many problems facing statistical spam filters, the most widely adopted technology for detecting junk emails. In particular, some SCSD systems can identify previously unseen spam messages as such, although intuitively this would appear to be impossible. However, the SCSD approach usually relies on huge databases of email signatures, demanding lots of resource in signature lookup, storage, transmission and merging. In this paper, we report our enhancements to two representative SCSD systems. In our enhancements, signature lookups can be performed in constant time, independent of the number of signatures in the database. Space-efficient representation can significantly reduce signature database size. A simple but fast algorithm for merging different signature databases is also supported. We use the Bloom filter technique and a novel variant of this technique to achieve all this.",
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