The failure of noise-based non-continuous audio captchas

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 19-31

  Bursztein, Elie ^a   Beauxis, Romain ^b   Paskov, Hristo ^a   Perito, Daniele ^c   Fabry, Celine ^a   Mitchell, John ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERS;

AUTOMATED TEST; CAPTCHAS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; CURRENT SCHEMES; MICROSOFT; PERFORMANCE; SCIENTIFIC BASIS; WEB-SITES;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 80052004772     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2011.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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