Captcha robustness: a security engineering perspective

Jeff Yan; Ahmad Salah El Ahmad

doi:10.1109/MC.2010.275

Captcha robustness: a security engineering perspective

Jeff Yan^*, Ahmad Salah El Ahmad

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer And Information Sciences

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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.

Original language	English
Pages	54-60
Number of pages	7
Volume	44
No.	2
Specialist publication	Computer
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2010.275
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2011

Keywords

captchas
internet security
robustness
security engineering
segmentation
computer security
network security
access control

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