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diff --git a/mail/p5-razor-agents/DESCR b/mail/p5-razor-agents/DESCR index e6e84cc0451..754a90ee927 100644 --- a/mail/p5-razor-agents/DESCR +++ b/mail/p5-razor-agents/DESCR @@ -1,14 +1,13 @@ -Vipul's Razor is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and -filtering network. Razor establishes a distributed and constantly -updating catalogue of spam in propagation. This catalogue is used -by clients to filter out known spam. On receiving a spam, a Razor -Reporting Agent (run by an end-user or a troll box) calculates and -submits a 20-character unique identification of the spam (a SHA -Digest) to its closest Razor Catalogue Server. The Catalogue Server -echos this signature to other trusted servers after storing it in its -database. Prior to manual processing or transport-level reception, -Razor Filtering Agents (end-users and MTAs) check their incoming mail -against a Catalogue Server and filter out or deny transport in case of -a signature match. Catalogued spam, once identified and reported by a -Reporting Agent, can be blocked out by the rest of the Filtering Agents -on the network. +Vipul's Razor is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and +filtering network. Through user contribution, Razor establishes a +distributed and constantly updating catalogue of spam in propagation that +is consulted by email clients to filter out known spam. Detection is done +with statistical and randomized signatures that efficiently spot mutating +spam content. User input is validated through reputation assignments based +on consensus on report and revoke assertions which in turn is used for +computing confidence values associated with individual signatures. + +Razor Agents are written in Perl and will work on most Unix operating +systems and others OSes for which perl is available. + +Vipul's Razor v2 is almost a complete rewrite of Razor v1. |