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Lookup NU author(s): Ahmad El Ahmad, Dr Jeff Yan, Mohamad Tayara
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
Author(s): El Ahmad AS, Yan J, Tayara M
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2011
Pages: 15
Print publication date: 01/09/2011
Source Publication Date: September 2011
Report Number: 1278
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
