Re: features/tokens

Bill Yerazunis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.crm114
Message-ID <[email protected]>
   is there any way to see the features and/or tokens that are stored in the
   .cfc-files?

If you mean the text strings that went into creating
those features and tokens, no, and intentionally not.

Because those tokens would represent snippets of plaintext
of your email, they represent a significant disclosure risk.

Second (not as important any more) reason was that some spam
was coming through _copyrighted_ a while ago.  Thus, 
redistribution was in some sense illegal.  The trapdoor-nature
of the hashes makes that less of a legal issue.

Now, it's true that a simple dictionary burte-force attack will
cause any of these files to yield up their treasure, (this is
obfuscation, not encryption), but it is adequate for preventing
casual browsing (and keeping Spotlight et al from pulling up 
things you might have preferred stayed buried.)

If it really matters to you, I'm sure we can set a printout
flag so you can get that data.

     - Bill Yerazunis




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