Blinding POPFile via a single-word attack

2006-07-01

Olivier Guillion

Myriad Software, France

John Graham-Cumming

Independent consultant, France

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Olivier Guillion and John Graham-Cumming describe how it is possible to 'blind' the POPFile spam filter with a single-word attack.

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