The Robustness of Google CAPTCHAs

El Ahmad, A.S. and Yan, Jeff and Tayara, Mohamad (2011) The Robustness of Google CAPTCHAs. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series . Newcastle University School of Computing Science, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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Abstract

We report a novel attack on two CAPTCHAs that have been widely deployed on the Internet, one being Google's home design and the other acquired by Google (i.e. reCAPTCHA). With a minor change, our attack program also works well on the latest ReCAPTCHA version, which uses a new defence mechanism that was unknown to us when we designed our attack. This suggests that our attack works in a fundamental level. Our attack appears to be applicable to a whole family of text CAPTCHAs that build on top of the popular segmentation-resistant mechanism of "crowding character together" for security. Next, we propose a novel framework that guides the application of our well-tested security engineering methodology for evaluating CAPTCHA robustness, and we propose a new general principle for CAPTCHA design.

Item Type:
Book/Report/Proceedings
Subjects:
?? CAPTCHAROBUSTNESSSEGMENTATION ATTACK ??
ID Code:
77753
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Deposited On:
25 Apr 2016 12:50
Refereed?:
No
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
12 Sep 2023 03:42