Reverse engineering CAPTCHAs

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 59-68

  Hindle, Abram ^a   Godfrey, Michael W ^a   Holt, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

BIT MAPS; BLACK BOXES; CAPTCHA; CAPTCHAS; CASE STUDIES; CREATION PROCESSES; GAIN ACCESSES; IMAGE COMPOSITIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES; OPEN SOURCES; REVERSE ENGINEERS; THRESHOLDING; TURING TESTS; WEB MAILS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 57849114493     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2008.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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