Captcha Robustness: A Security Engineering Perspective

  • Authors:
  • Jeff Yan;Ahmad Salah El Ahmad

  • Affiliations:
  • Newcastle Univ, Newcastle upon Tyne;Newcastle University,

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Captchas are a standard defense on commercial websites against undesirable or malicious Internet bot programs, but widely deployed schemes can be broken with simple but novel attacks. Applying security engineering expertise to the design of Captchas can significantly improve their robustness.