Mark Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone seems to think that he invented temporary email addresses: > > http://www.infosecuritymag.com/2003/jan/digest06.shtml#news2 > > I wonder if we should suggest that an implementation of "his" idea > already exists.
He's aware of TMDA, as it's referenced in his NDSS'03 paper on Single-Purpose Addresses. See http://www.tla.org/news.html. So, I'm not sure why John Ioannidis told The New York Times that this is ``his solution''. After reading the paper, an "SPA" seems practically identical to a TMDA tagged addresses. Although there are some minor implementation differences, I really don't see any advantages to the SPA system. For example, the paper describes what in TMDA terms would be a combination of a 'dated' and 'sender' address for use in web forms. This isn't reliable. Companies often outsource their e-mail services, and there is no way to predict what address or even domain a reply to a web form will originate from. Using a TMDA 'dated' or 'keyword' address works fine in this situation since it's sender independent. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
