PowMail : want to fork? : do some work

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Tomescu, Alin (Ioan Alin Tomescu Nicolescu)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Srinivas Devadas.
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Abstract
We design and implement PowMail, a secure email framework that uses proof-of-work to prevent impersonation attacks. PowMail uses a novel authenticated data structure called a Po W-tree to enable email users to jointly certify the history of all users' public keys. An implementation is given in the Go programming language. We evaluate PowMail and demonstrate its feasibility for securing email communications today.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.
 
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
 
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-79).
 
Date issued
2015
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101589
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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