Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-28 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:43:51 -0400 dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 10/28, David F. Skoll wrote: > > Perhaps you have heard of a recent phenomenon called "a botnet"? > > Just what security do you think TCP really buys you? > Requiring them to use the botnet. In other words: No security at all.

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-28 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:56:08 -0230 "Lawrence @ Rogers" wrote: > What reporting system do you use? Although our Perl client library is free, the server-side code is proprietary. > and how does one avail of the data it provides? We sell rsync access to our lists. We also provide it for free to

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-28 Thread Darxus
On 10/28, David F. Skoll wrote: > Perhaps you have heard of a recent phenomenon called "a botnet"? Just > what security do you think TCP really buys you? Requiring them to use the botnet. > And what kind of account registration do you envision that lets you > easily register "millions" of accoun

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-28 Thread Lawrence @ Rogers
On 28/10/2010 1:45 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: OK, On a somewhat less sarcastic note: One reason we didn't use TCP is that it simply doesn't scale. If you have clients that open a TCP connection, do a report, and then close the TCP connection, there's a huge bandwidth penalty. On the other hand

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-28 Thread David F. Skoll
OK, On a somewhat less sarcastic note: One reason we didn't use TCP is that it simply doesn't scale. If you have clients that open a TCP connection, do a report, and then close the TCP connection, there's a huge bandwidth penalty. On the other hand, if your clients maintain persistent TCP conne

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-28 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:19:50 -0400 dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > Having nothing to prevent someone from registering millions of > accounts and spewing data from a single IP is not acceptable to me. Umm... Perhaps you have heard of a recent phenomenon called "a botnet"? Just what security do y

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-28 Thread Darxus
On 10/28, Dave O'Neill wrote: > >>http://www.mimedefang.org/reputation > You're discounting it entirely because it uses UDP? Are you sure > you read the RFC? > > The sender IP address is irrelevant -- it's not used for anything at > all. Reports are authenticated with a prearranged username and

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-28 Thread Dave O'Neill
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 02:32:17PM -0400, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 10/22, Henrik K wrote: You should check out this draft: http://www.mimedefang.org/reputation (An IETF draft of a Reputation Reporting Protocol.) Yup, thank you. It's interesting that the ASRG list didn't mention this.

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On man 25 okt 2010 21:24:38 CEST, Dennis German wrote Have you pulled your own data from auto-whitelist ? or use spamcop worst spam ipranges ? awl is usefull if one change the default mask to /32 else the ip counts will be to fussy to make anything there -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/re

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-25 Thread Dennis German
On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Royce Williams wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Per Jessen wrote: >> Royce Williams wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Michael Scheidell >>> wrote: On 10/21/10 8:50 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > > I'd like to try collecting

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-23 Thread Royce Williams
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Per Jessen wrote: > Royce Williams wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Michael Scheidell >> wrote: >>> On 10/21/10 8:50 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: I'd like to try collecting reputation data for every IP address from everyone willing

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-23 Thread Per Jessen
Royce Williams wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Michael Scheidell > wrote: >> On 10/21/10 8:50 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to try collecting reputation data for every IP address from >>> everyone willing to submit it. > >> re-inventing the wheel. > > If what's be

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-22 Thread Darxus
On 10/22, m...@khonji.org wrote: > www.ceas.cc/2006/19.pdf On 10/22, Claude Frantz wrote: > considered as importunate by another recipient. Therefore, an > universally valid SPAM ranking is not possible. Further, a SPAM ranking The high rankings in spamassassin rule QA of existing blacklist a

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-22 Thread Royce Williams
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: > On 10/21/10 8:50 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: >> >> I'd like to try collecting reputation data for every IP address from >> everyone willing to submit it. > re-inventing the wheel. If what's being suggested is a non-commercial alte

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-22 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 10/21/10 8:50 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: I'd like to try collecting reputation data for every IP address from everyone willing to submit it. Via something like spamassassin's --report (spam) and --revoke (non-spam) functions. And then providing a list with a percentage of non-spam (vs

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-22 Thread Henrik K
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:50:43PM -0400, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > I'd like to try collecting reputation data for every IP address from > everyone willing to submit it. You should check out this draft: http://www.mimedefang.org/reputation

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-22 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.10.10 20:50, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > I'd like to try collecting reputation data for every IP address from > everyone willing to submit it. Via something like spamassassin's --report > (spam) and --revoke (non-spam) functions. And then providing a list with > a percentage of non-spam

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-21 Thread Claude Frantz
On 10/22/2010 02:50 AM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Or falsely reporting legit mail servers as sending large quantities of spam in another attempt to cripple the usefulness of such a system. I'm also interested in more ideas on how spammers could game this system, and what could be done about

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-21 Thread m
www.ceas.cc/2006/19.pdf --- Mahmoud Khonji -Original Message- From: m...@khonji.org Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:03:54 To: ; Reply-To: m...@khonji.org Subject: Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people >I was originally thinking it would be >most informative to provi

Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-21 Thread m
>I was originally thinking it would be >most informative to provide the >number of spams and non-spams from >each IP over some time period. Google has a presentation in CEAS (check ceas.cc website) that explained a very similar approach to fight SPAM by ranking mail senders. As the presentation

Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-21 Thread Darxus
I'd like to try collecting reputation data for every IP address from everyone willing to submit it. Via something like spamassassin's --report (spam) and --revoke (non-spam) functions. And then providing a list with a percentage of non-spam (vs. spam) seen from every IP. And hopefully that would