CAPTCHA Presentation by Annette Tsui, Section 2
What is CAPTCHA? zCAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart Introduced by Alan Turing in “If a computer’s performance was indistinguishable from a human, it could be deemed intelligent.” zStill not able to do completely, but programs have been developed that are able to pass tests that humans can pass
Types of CAPTCHAs zVisual-based and Sound-based zVisual-based examples: yGimpy, EZ-Gimpy, Gimpy-r, Pessimal Print, Baffletext ySound based: Sounds CAPTCHA used in Hotmail®, Yahoo! ®, and Altavista® new login accounts
Visual-based CAPTCHAs Yahoo!® CAPTCHA (EZ-Gimpy) Gimpy CAPTCHA Source:
Visual-based CAPTCHAs Pessimal Print CAPTCHA Baffletext CAPTCHA Source:
Further Information zThe CAPTCHA Project: zPARC (Palo Alto Research Center) website about CAPTCHAs: s/captcha/ zGreg Mori’s web page about his attack on Gimpy: