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CAPTCHA Generation as a Web Service

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Human Interactive Proofs (HIP 2005)

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We present an implementation of CAPTCHA image generation as a REST-style web service, currently available at http://captchaservice.org. We argue that CAPTCHA generation is well suited to a web services approach, particularly one powered by open-source code, and discuss techniques for using such a service to protect weblogs from comment spam attacks.

We describe the captchservice.org API by example, and detail the workings of the two image-distortion techniques that the service offers. We also discuss accessibility objections to visual CAPTCHAs, describe our early attempts at non-visual alternatives, and summarize future development directions.

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    Tim Converse

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  1. Tim Converse
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  1. Computer Science & Engineering Dept, Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Dr West, 18017, Bethlehem, PA, USA

    Henry S. Baird

  2. Lehigh University, 18015, Bethlehem, PA, USA

    Daniel P. Lopresti

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Converse, T. (2005). CAPTCHA Generation as a Web Service. In: Baird, H.S., Lopresti, D.P. (eds) Human Interactive Proofs. HIP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3517. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11427896_6

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  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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