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Reusing passwords across multiple websites is a common practice that compromises security. Recently, Blum and Vempala have proposed password strategies to help people calculate, in their heads, passwords for different sites without…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Samira Samadi , Santosh Vempala , Adam Tauman Kalai

CAPTCHAs/HIPs are security mechanisms that try to prevent automatic abuse of services. They are susceptible to learning attacks in which attackers can use them as oracles. Kwon and Cha presented recently a novel algorithm that intends to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Carlos Javier Hernández-Castro , María D. R-Moreno , David F. Barrero , Shujun Li

Nowadays, CAPTCHAs are computer generated tests that human can pass but current computer systems can not. They have common usage in various web services in order to be able to detect a human from computer programs autonomously. In this way,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Ahmet Faruk Cakmak , Muhammet Balcilar

In an open network environment, privacy of group communication and integrity of the communication data are the two major issues related to secured information exchange. The required level of security may be achieved by authenticating a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Dipak Kumar Kole , Subhadip Basu

To mitigate dictionary attacks or similar undesirable automated attacks to information systems, developers mostly prefer using CAPTCHA challenges as Human Interactive Proofs (HIPs) to distinguish between human users and scripts. Appropriate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Emre Mulazimoglu , Murat P. Cakir , Cengiz Acarturk

As a widely deployed security scheme, text-based CAPTCHAs have become more and more difficult to resist machine learning-based attacks. So far, many researchers have conducted attacking research on text-based CAPTCHAs deployed by different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Chunhui Li , Xingshu Chen , Haizhou Wang , Yu Zhang , Peiming Wang

We propose a new scheme of attack on the Microsoft's ASIRRA CAPTCHA which represents a significant shortcut to the intended attacking path, as it is not based in any advance in the state of the art on the field of image recognition. After…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-11 Carlos Javier Hernandez-Castro , Arturo Ribagorda , Yago Saez

This report gives a novel technique of image encryption and authentication by combining elements of Visual Cryptography and Public Key Cryptography. A prominent attack involving generation of fake shares to cheat honest users has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Rahul Saranjame , Manik Lal Das

According to actual needs, generalized signcryption scheme can flexibly work as an encryption scheme, a signature scheme or a signcryption scheme. In this paper, firstly, we give a security model for identity based generalized signcryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Gang Yu , Xiaoxiao Ma , Yong Shen , Wenbao Han

Password-based authentication schemes are the most widely used techniques for remote user authentication. Many static ID-based remote user authentication schemes both with and without smart cards have been proposed. Most of the schemes do…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Manik Lal Das , Ashutosh Saxena , Ved P. Gulati

In 2013, Tsai et al. cryptanalyzed Yeh et al. scheme and shown that Yeh et al., scheme is vulnerable to various cryptographic attacks and proposed an improved scheme. In this poster we will show that Tsai et al., scheme is also vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Vorugunti Chandra Sekhar , Mrudula Sarvabhatla

Passwords are a fragile, inadequate, and insecure tool for authenticating users, and are especially fraught with problems when used to secure access to network resources and services. In many cases, passwords provide a false sense of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Travis Z. Suel

Many computer-based authentication schemata are based on pass- words. Logging on a computer, reading email, accessing content on a web server are all examples of applications where the identification of the user is usually accomplished…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michele Finelli

Cryptographic algorithms have been used not only to create robust ciphertexts but also to generate cryptograms that, contrary to the classic goal of cryptography, are meant to be broken. These cryptograms, generally called puzzles, require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Isra Mohamed Ali , Maurantonio Caprolu , Roberto Di Pietro

Recent work suggests that a type of nudge or priming technique called the presentation effect may potentially improve the security of PassPoints-style graphical passwords. These nudges attempt to prime or non-intrusively bias user password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Zach Parish , Amirali Salehi-Abari , Julie Thorpe

This paper presents a novel solution to the age long problem of password security at input level. In our solution, each of the various characters from which a password could be composed is encoded with a random single digit integer and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-01 A. T. Akinwale , F. T. Ibharalu

Image security for information has become increasingly critical as internet become more prevalent due to hacking and unauthorized access. To ensure the security of confidential image data, image encryption using visual cryptography plays a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Dipak K. Rabari , Yogesh K. Meghrajani , Laxmi S. Desai

This paper presents a new scheme to distribute secret shares using two trusted third parties to increase security and eliminate the dependency on single trusted third party. This protocol for communication between a device and two trusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Adnan Memon

The rapid evolution of GUI-enabled agents has rendered traditional CAPTCHAs obsolete. While previous benchmarks like OpenCaptchaWorld established a baseline for evaluating multimodal agents, recent advancements in reasoning-heavy models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Liu , Yaxin Luo , Jiacheng Cui , Xinyi Shang , Xiaohan Zhao , Zhiqiang Shen

CAPTCHAs are a defense mechanism to prevent malicious bot programs from abusing websites on the Internet. hCaptcha is a relatively new but emerging image CAPTCHA service. This paper presents an automated system that can break hCaptcha…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Md Imran Hossen , Xiali Hei