[Mailman-Developers] [GSOC 2014]Approach towards the Full anonymization project

[Rajeev S]

Hi,

I have written and deployed an App that generates and decodes anonymous
emails,as I had mentioned.

Find the application here

http://anongen.herokuapp.com/

Source here

https://github.com/rajeevs1992/anongen



*Regards,Rajeev S*
*Government Engineering College,Thrissur*
*http://rajeevs.tk <http://rajeevs.tk>*


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Rajeev S <rajeevs1992 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As mentioned, here is my approach towards the full anonymization project.
>
>
>    - Introduce a new model EmailMapper with attributes
>       - ForeginKey to Address / User
>       - seed, A 40 bit hash,unique
>       - nuses, number of times this hash is used,max 5 or 10
>    - The approach is to encrypt the seed nuses times, with encryption
>    algorithms like AES, each time the email ID is displayed.
>    - The email ID is displayed as <nuses><encrypted seed>
>    - The email is decrypted nuses times to find the parent seed and
>    thereby point to the exact email address.
>    - A new seed should be generated for the user after a fixed number of
>    attempts,say 5 or 10,as the repeated encryption routines can slow down the
>    system.
>
> The outcomes
>
>
>    - Everytime the user sends a message,his from address changes.
>    - At the same time, each of the from addresses point to the same user.
>    - The sender can use any stored address he has,like in the mail
>    contacts,repeatedly, to contact with a user,as it has nuses attached with
>    it.
>
> If this approach seems viable or if I am missing something
> important,please let me know.If this is fine, I would build an app that can
> demonstrate this functionality, before building my application.
>
>
> *Regards,Rajeev S*
> *Government Engineering College,Thrissur*
> *http://rajeevs.tk <http://rajeevs.tk>*
>