Okopipi (software tool)
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Okopipi was started in May 2006 to be an open source project intending to create a successor to Blue Security's Blue Frog
anti-spam project after Blue Frog was abandoned following attacks by spammers. The project has seen no activity since January 2007 and appears to be dead and unlikely to be resuscitated.
Unlike Blue Frog, Okopipi sought to use a distributed
model in order to avoid any single point of failure
. It was planned to be based on a P2P network nicknamed "the frognet". On failure to connect it was planned to still opt-out given e-mail addresses. The project was perpetually in the design phase. It was being specifically engineered to prevent the DDoS accusations leveled against its progenitors. Its peer-to-peer nature was unusual amongst anti-spam solutions, with no other peer-to-peer opt-out solutions of note available. The Thunderbird plugin for Okopipi has been renamed Habu and it's main purpose is reporting spam to the SEC, FTC, FDA, SpamCop, and Knujon.
Blue Frog
The Blue Frog tool, produced by Blue Security Inc., operated in 2006 as part of a community-based anti-spam system which tried to persuade spammers to remove community members' addresses from their mailing lists by automating the complaint process for each user as spam is received...
anti-spam project after Blue Frog was abandoned following attacks by spammers. The project has seen no activity since January 2007 and appears to be dead and unlikely to be resuscitated.
Unlike Blue Frog, Okopipi sought to use a distributed
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
model in order to avoid any single point of failure
Single point of failure
A single point of failure is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. They are undesirable in any system with a goal of high availability or reliability, be it a business practice, software application, or other industrial system.-Overview:Systems can be made...
. It was planned to be based on a P2P network nicknamed "the frognet". On failure to connect it was planned to still opt-out given e-mail addresses. The project was perpetually in the design phase. It was being specifically engineered to prevent the DDoS accusations leveled against its progenitors. Its peer-to-peer nature was unusual amongst anti-spam solutions, with no other peer-to-peer opt-out solutions of note available. The Thunderbird plugin for Okopipi has been renamed Habu and it's main purpose is reporting spam to the SEC, FTC, FDA, SpamCop, and Knujon.
External links
- www.okopipi.org (archived copy stored by Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
’s Wayback Machine) - Okopipi leaps in where Blue Security left off
- Black Frog leaps into fight against spam CNet news.com.com coverage of the project
- vnunet.com coverage of Okopipi
- One of the initial design documents (archived copy stored by Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)