Abstract
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.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
May, B.: Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests, W3C Working Draft (November 5, 2003), Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/
Mori, G., Malik, J.: Recognizing Objects in Adversarial Clutter: Breaking a Visual CAPTCHA. In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Madison, WI (June 2003)
Park, J.: Towards Semi-Permeable Blogging. Unpublished manuscript (2003), available at http://mod-pubsub.org/docs/semipermeable.html (to be published as a CommerceNet Technical Report)
von Ahn, L., Blum, M., Langford, J.: Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically. Communications of the ACM 47(2) (2004)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
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
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11427896_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-26001-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-32117-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)