A Secured and Semantically Addressed E-Mail Service
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Author |
ETENG, Idongesit.E, OSOFISAN, Adenike O, AMADI, J.C.
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ISSN |
2079-8407 |
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On Pages
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975-987
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Volume No. |
3
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Issue No. |
6
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Issue Date |
June 01, 2012 |
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Publishing Date |
June 01, 2012 |
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Keywords |
Semantic Email, database update, biometric authentication.
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Abstract
This paper illustrates the use of semantic addresses to send emails in a corporate environment. Semantic Email Addressing
(SEA) allows emails to be sent to a semantically specified recipient or group of recipients, which may be dynamically changing
overtime. In order to describe the concept of SEA and its advantages, it is compared with the concept of mailing lists. Two
solutions to send semantically addressed emails are presented, on one hand a client sided solution has been elaborated where
the email is directly sent by the user, on the other hand, a server sided solution is also discussed, where the server sends the
emails to the recipient. To make semantic addressing possible attributes which define users who want to use semantic
addressing have to be collected. These attributes can be introduced by either the administrator or the user. The attributes must
be up to date; that means regular updates must be carried out. A novel update technique which uses the concept of aging is
described. Also, finger print authentication was introduced to curb the security problem that characterizes SEA. Unified
Modeling Language (UML) tools are used for the system design. The Java programing language was used to implement the
prototype application developed to illustrate the concepts described in this work and several tests were successfully carried out
on the developed application.
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