Encrypted Email Addresses

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Last Post: February 24, 2010   (RSS)

By jtedescojam - November 5, 2009

So you guys may not have thought of this, or it's too complex... but it would be great if you added a section editor attribute called 'encrypted email'. So when the CMSB user enters an email address, that address is encoded so spammers cannot use. I have a client that displays ALL company email addresses for use of public, but has gotten hammered with spam.. here's an example of code that I currently use. (if you have an alternate fix for this that can be used within CMSB, that would be great... maybe a plugin?)

Email: <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
// Email obfuscator script 2.1 by Tim Williams, University of Arizona
// Random encryption key feature by Andrew Moulden, Site Engineering Ltd
// This code is freeware provided these four comment lines remain intact
// A wizard to generate this code is at http://www.jottings.com/obfuscator/
{ coded = "8FZuGFuuCgVZB9@gGBQFaBEVBPlWj.LEw"
key = "S0KLdQ9f1GUb8WVCABru2X5aYDzOgxZkoHvs7jhRPcniyJeIpq4ElTMNFt3m6w"
shift=coded.length
link=""
for (i=0; i<coded.length; i++) {
if (key.indexOf(coded.charAt(i))==-1) {
ltr = coded.charAt(i)
link += (ltr)
}
else {
ltr = (key.indexOf(coded.charAt(i))-shift+key.length) % key.length
link += (key.charAt(ltr))
}
}
document.write("<a href='mailto:"+link+"'>"+link+"</a>")
}
//-->
</script>
John Tedesco

Creative Director



JAM Graphics

Re: [jtedescojam] Encrypted Email Addresses

By Damon - November 5, 2009

HI,

We have a php software called Spambot Email Protector that scans the whole page and automatically encrypts any email address to prevent email address harvesting by spammers.

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/spambot-email-protector/

Just include one line of code at the top of the page to protect and it works.

Also, it has an "Royalty Free license", which means that you only need to purchase it once, and can use it on as many pages and sites as you like. :)

Hope that helps.
Cheers,
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Re: [Damon] Encrypted Email Addresses

By jtedescojam - November 5, 2009

darn it.. I had a feeling it was this thing that you offered... I never actually looked into it. I hope this didn't take up to much of your time. Thanks as always for stellar communication.
John Tedesco

Creative Director



JAM Graphics

Re: [jtedescojam] Encrypted Email Addresses

By Codee - November 10, 2009

I'd like to add that it's easy to implement, works very well against spam bots, and it extremely cost effective. I include it by default on all the sites I build now.

Re: [Damon] Encrypted Email Addresses

By gkornbluth - February 24, 2010

Hi Damon,

Has the spambot e-mail protector been discontinued? It's not listed in the appstore and isn't at the address in your post.

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/spambot-email-protector/

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Encrypted Email Addresses

By Damon - February 24, 2010

Hi,

No, we haven't discontinued it, just haven't created a page for it in the new site design yet, but can still buy the Spambot Email Protector from our order page here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/order/
Cheers,
Damon Edis - interactivetools.com

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Re: [gkornbluth] Encrypted Email Addresses

By Dave - February 24, 2010

We're going to make it a plugin eventually. So you don't need to manually add it to every page anymore.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] Encrypted Email Addresses

By gkornbluth - February 24, 2010

Thanks for the heads up Dave
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