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What are CAPTCHAs? (1/3)
Example of an image-
based CAPTCHA:
Asirra
Source: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asirra/
What are CAPTCHAs? (3/3)
Example of a domain-
specific CAPTCHA:
CAPNTHLA for
NetHack players.
Source: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/CAPNTHLA
Source: http://nethackwiki.
com/wiki/File:Nh343-vt-
ibmgraphics.png
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Attack on the Microsoft CAPTCHA (1/2)
Six stages
Attack on the Microsoft CAPTCHA (2/2)
1. Pre-processing
2. Vertical segmentation
5. Locating connected
characters
6. Segmenting connected
characters
Source: Yan & El Ahmad, 2008
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The transparent letter scheme
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