On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:42:45PM -0800, David Grimberg wrote:

> Well Since a sender address is uniquely tied to the address sending
> you the email you only need to look at who sent you the offending
> email to know who to blame.  For example if you generate a sender

It doesn't quite work like that. If you generate a sender address for
Alice, and she sells it to Bob, because of the one-way hash you have no
way to tell that the address Bob is using came from Alice. Granted, the
email from Bob will be blocked, but you may wish to block further
communications from Alice as well, since she's ovbiously selling you
down the river.

The point here is that the sender's real address is not recoverable from
the TMDA sender-address. From a cryptographic standpoint, that's what
you want. From a "who violated the privacy policy" standpoint, not so
much.

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