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- 2. Contents... •What is CAPTCHA? •Makinga CAPTCHA •Type of CAPTCHA •Where to use CAPTCHA? •Guidelines when making a CAPTCHA •Ways to break CAPTCHA •reCAPTCHA •Time spent
- 3. CAPTCHA means... Completely AutomatedPublic Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart Created in 2000 for Yahoo to prevent automated e-mail account registration.
- 4. Cont... A program thatcan tell whether its user is a human or a computer. It uses a type of challenge-response test to determine that the response is not generated by a computer.
- 5. Turing test: “Standard Interpretation” PlayerC, the interrogator is asked with trying to determine which player A or B is a computer and which is a human.
- 6. Reverse Turing Test: ACAPTCHA is sometimes described as a Reverse Turing Test, because it is... Administrate by a machine and targeted to a human
- 7. So, CAPTCHA is... Aprogram that can generate and grade tests that: •Most human can pass; •Current computer programs cannot pass
- 8. Making a CAPTCHA... Picka random string of characters Renders it into a distorted image CAPTCHA
- 9. Making a CAPTCHA... ...andthe program generates a test: Type the characters that appear in the image
- 10. Type of CAPTCHA... •EarlyCAPTCHAs •Generated by EZ-gimpy program; •Used previously in Yahoo!
- 11. Type of CAPTCHA... •ImprovedCAPTCHAs: • high contrast for human readability; • medium, per-character perturbation; • random fonts per character;
- 12. Type of CAPTCHA... •AMorden CAPTCHAs: •rather than attempting to create a distorted background and high levels of warping on the text; •focus on making segmentation difficult by adding an angled line;
- 13. Other types ofCAPTCHA... •Animated CAPTCHAs •3D CAPTCHAs •ASCII Art
- 14. Where to useCAPTCHAs??? •Data connection •Worms and spam •Protecting Email address from scrappers •Online polls •Protecting website registration •Preventing dictionary attacks •Search engine bots
- 15. Guidelines when makinga CAPTCHA... •Image security : Image of text distorted randomly •Script level security : Systems where a solution to the same CAPTCHA can be used multiple times
- 16. Guidelines when makinga CAPTCHA... Accessibility : It prevent visually impaired users from accessing the protected resource •They use screen reader, so when you reached an image, all it can do is to read the caption of that image •Solution: permitting users to opt for an audio or sound CAPTCHA
- 17. Ways to breakCAPTCHAs... •Using cheap human labor to process the tests •Improving Character Recognition software (OCR – Optical Character Recognition )
- 18. Break: character recognition... •Programsthat have the following functions: •Extraction of the image from the web page •Removal of background clutter, for example with color filters and detection of thin lines •Segmentation, i.e. splitting the image into regions each containing a single letter; •Identifying the letter for each region.
- 19. reCAPTCHA... •New form ofCAPTCHA that also helps digitize books; •The words displayed to the user come directly from old books that are being digitized; •Words that OCR could not identify;
- 21. Time spent... •Roughly 60million CAPTCHAs are solved each day; •Medium 10 seconds to solve a captcha; •People around the world waste more than 150,000 hours on solving CAPTCHAs;