DocumentCode
1350354
Title
Captcha Robustness: A Security Engineering Perspective
Author
Yan, Jeff ; El Ahmad, Ahmad Salah
Author_Institution
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Volume
44
Issue
2
fYear
2011
Firstpage
54
Lastpage
60
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.
Keywords
Internet; Web sites; security of data; Captcha robustness; commercial Websites; malicious Internet bot programs; security engineering perspective; Captchas; Internet security; Robustness; Security engineering; Segmentation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MC.2010.275
Filename
5601666
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