The robustness of hollow CAPTCHAs

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1075-1085

  Gao, Haichang ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Qi, Jiao ^a   Wang, Xuqin ^a   Liu, Xiyang ^a   Yan, Jeff ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

captcha; convolutional neural network; graph search; security

Indexed keywords

CAPTCHAS; CHINA MOBILES; CONNECTED CHARACTERS; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; GRAPH SEARCH; SECURITY; SECURITY AND USABILITIES; SECURITY TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERS; INDUSTRY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84889069302     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2508859.2516732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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