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Text-based password schemes have inherent security and usability problems, leading to the development of graphical password schemes. However, most of these alternate schemes are vulnerable to spyware attacks. We propose a new scheme, using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Liming Wang , Xiuling Chang , Zhongjie Ren , Haichang Gao , Xiyang Liu , Uwe Aickelin

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Truing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely used technology to distinguish real users and automated users such as bots. However, the advance of AI technologies weakens many CAPTCHA tests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Rulin Shao , Zhouxing Shi , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh

A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is an automatic security mechanism used to determine whether the user is a human or a malicious computer program. It is a program that generates and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury , Narayan Ranjan Chakraborty

The proliferation of the Internet and mobile devices has resulted in malicious bots access to genuine resources and data. Bots may instigate phishing, unauthorized access, denial-of-service, and spoofing attacks to mention a few.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 N. Tariq , F. A. Khan , S. A. Moqurrab , G. Srivastava

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, short for CAPTCHA, is an essential and relatively easy way to defend against malicious attacks implemented by bots. The security and usability trade-off limits the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Zisheng Xu , Qiao Yan , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung

CAPTCHA(Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) can be used to protect data from auto bots. Countless kinds of CAPTCHAs are thus designed, while we most frequently utilize text-based scheme because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Ye Wang , Mi Lu

CAPTCHAs or reverse Turing tests are real-time assessments used by programs (or computers) to tell humans and machines apart. This is achieved by assigning and assessing hard AI problems that could only be solved easily by human but not by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-02-05 A. K. B. Karunathilake , B. M. D. Balasuriya , R. G. Ragel

Atomizing various Web activities by replacing human to human interactions on the Internet has been made indispensable due to its enormous growth. However, bots also known as Web-bots which have a malicious intend and pretending to be humans…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-26 M. Tariq Banday , N. A. Shah

Crowdsourcing human-solving or online typing attacks are destructive problems. However, studies into these topics have been limited. In this paper, we focus on this kind of attacks whereby all the CAPTCHAs can be simply broken because of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jianyi Zhang , Xiali Hei , Zhiqiang Wang

CAPTCHAs are commonly used to distinguish between human and bot users on the web. However, despite having various types of CAPTCHAs, there are still concerns about their security and usability. To address these concerns, we surveyed over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Arun Reddy , Yuan Cheng

With the growth of connectivity to smart grids, new applications, and the changing interaction between customer and energy clouds, clouds are more vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. Efficient detection methods are required to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Monther Aldwairi , Suaad Mohammed , Megana Lakshmi Padmanabhan

Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has been implemented on many websites to identify between harmful automated bots and legitimate users. However, the revenue generated by the bots has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Rui Jin , Lin Huang , Jikang Duan , Wei Zhao , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

Turing test was originally proposed to examine whether machine's behavior is indistinguishable from a human. The most popular and practical Turing test is CAPTCHA, which is to discriminate algorithm from human by offering recognition-alike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jiaming Zhang , Jitao Sang , Kaiyuan Xu , Shangxi Wu , Yongli Hu , Yanfeng Sun , Jian Yu

A secure human identification protocol aims at authenticating human users to a remote server when even the users' inputs are not hidden from an adversary. Recently, the authors proposed a human identification protocol in the RSA Conference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hassan Jameel , Heejo Lee , Sungyoung Lee

For the last ten years, CAPTCHAs have been widely used by websites to prevent their data being automatically updated by machines. By supposedly allowing only humans to do so, CAPTCHAs take advantage of the reverse Turing test (TT), knowing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Ahmad B. A. Hassanat

As a result of continuing advances in computer capabilities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between humans and computers in the digital world. We propose using the fundamental human ability to distinguish between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Nasser Mohammed Al-Fannah

As smart phones and tablets are becoming ubiquitous and taking over as the primary choice for accessing the Internet worldwide, ensuring a secure gateway to the servers serving such devices become essential. CAPTCHAs play an important role…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-12-25 C. B Bulumulla , R. G. Ragel

CAPTCHAs are widely employed for distinguishing humans from automated bots online. However, current vision based CAPTCHAs face escalating security risks: traditional attacks continue to bypass many deployed CAPTCHA schemes, and recent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ziqi Ding , Shangzhi Xu , Wei Song , Yuekang Li

Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) are a foundational component of web security, yet traditional implementations suffer from a trade-off between usability and resilience against AI-powered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ayda Aghaei Nia

CAPTCHA is a human-centred test to distinguish a human operator from bots, attacking programs, or other computerised agents that tries to imitate human intelligence. In this research, we investigate a way to crack visual CAPTCHA tests by an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Zahra Noury , Mahdi Rezaei
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