CAPTCHA

BY BONNY MATHEW
SRO 0532730
 OVERVIEW

1. Basic Understanding.
2. The Origin.
3. Working of CAPTCHA.
4. Types Of CAPTCHA’s.
5. Applications.
6. Advantages vs Limitations.
7. Conclusion.

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 BASIC UNDERSTANDING
• Acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell
Computers and Human Apart.

• Program to tell whether user is Human or a Computer.

• First used by Altavista in 1997 .

• Based on Open AI. Program

• Aka. “A Reverse Turing Test”

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 THE ORIGINS
• Primitive CAPTCHAs developed in 1997 by Andrei Broder, Martin Abadi, Krishna
Bharat, and Mark Lillibridge to prevent bots from adding URLs to their search
engine.

• The term coined in 2003 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum and Nicholas J. Hopper
and John Langford of IBM.

• THE TURING TEST-

• Proposed by Alan Turing , To test a machine’s level of intelligence Human
judge asks questions to two participants .
• CAPTCHA employs a reverse Turing test , where;

• Judge = CAPTCHA program ,

• Participant = user
• if user passes CAPTCHA, he is human
• If user fails, it is a machine.
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 WORKING OF CAPTCHA
• A CAPTCHA image shows a random string which the user has to
type to submit a form.

• The text or Image is alienated and distorted such that it is difficult for
Computers to use Character Recognition , making it hard for a
computer to decode.

• Hence, this is an effective method for

User Validation.

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 TYPES OF CAPTCHA
 TEXT BASED
o Gimpy, ez-gimpy.
o Gimpy-r , Google CAPTCHA.
o Simrad’s HIP (MSN).

 GRAPHIC BASED
o Bongo.
o Pix.

 AUDIO BASED
o Using the TTS Software.
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 APPLICATIONS

• Online polls.
• Search engine bots.
• Prevent spams.
• Prevent dictionary attacks.
• Advancing Artificial Intelligence.
• Protecting Website Registration.

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 V/S
ADVANTAGES LIMITATIONS

 Distinguishes between a human and a ¿ Sometimes very difficult to read.

machine.
¿ Time-consuming to decipher
 Makes online polls more legitimate.
¿ Are not compatible with users with
 Reduces spam and viruses. disabilities

 Makes online shopping safer. ¿ Technical difficulties with certain

internet browsers.
 Diminishes abuse of free email
account services. ¿ May greatly enhance Artificial
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 CONCLUSION
 CAPTCHAs are an effective way to counter bots and reduce spam.

 Applications are varied from stopping bots to character recognition

& pattern matching.

 Regular Updation of latest tech to preserve the genuinity of the

system.

 Some issues with current implementations represent challenges for

future improvements.
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 THANKS FOR LISTENING!!
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