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== Description == | == Description == | ||
At Computer Netwoks groups, in collaboration with Deutsche Telekom labs, we are actively working on LENS, a new spam protection system. LENS leverages anti-social networking paradigm based on an underlying trust infrastructure to both extend spam protection beyond a user’s social circle and fundamentally prevent the transmission of spam across the network at the first place. | At Computer Netwoks groups, in collaboration with Deutsche Telekom labs, we are actively working on LENS, a new spam protection system. LENS leverages anti-social networking paradigm based on an underlying trust infrastructure to both extend spam protection beyond a user’s social circle and fundamentally prevent the transmission of spam across the network at the first place. | ||
The goal of this student project (or bachelor thesis) is to develop Thunderbird Social Connector (TSC), an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The main features of TSC would be; | |||
* '''Formation of Community / Social Network:''' | |||
* '''Friend Suggestion:''' | |||
design and implement a prototype of LENS on mail transfer agent (MTA) as an email routing facility, and evaluate the system performances (e.g. delays, and overhead) on large scale tesbeds like PlanetLab. | |||
== Required Skills== | == Required Skills== | ||