CAPTCHAs

Seminar ID: 501

A Technical Seminar Report
Submitted in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the
Degree of Bachelor of Technology
Under Biju Patnaik University of Technology

By

Sunil Kumar Patra Roll # CSE 200710436

February - 2011

Under the guidance of

Mr. Chandan Kumar Behera

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY

Palur Hills, Berhampur, Orissa – 761008, India
ABSTRACT

CAPTCHAs are tests that distinguish human from software bots in an environment, used to stop
bots abusing services intended for humans. A CAPTCHA or Captcha is a type of challenge-
response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is not generated by a
computer. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a
simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are
supposedly unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to
be human.

Thus, it is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test, because it is administered by a machine

and targeted to a human, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is typically administered by a
human and targeted to a machine. A common type of CAPTCHA requires the user to type letters
or digits from a distorted image that appears on the screen.

Paypal and Yahoo have CAPTCHAs in their new user registration process but there are
programs to overcome them. Investigate proposals for new kinds of CAPTCHAs.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I express my deep sense of gratitude to my advisor, Mr. Chandan Kumar Behera, for her
valuable guidance and constant unfailing encouragement for proceeding of this technical
seminar.

I am also grateful to our Technical Seminar Coordinator, Mr. Purnendu Mishra, for giving us
an opportunity to do this report.

Last but not least, I am greatly thankful to our honorable director, Prof. Sangram Mudali, for
his continued drive for better quality in everything that happens at NIST.

SUNIL KUMAR PATRA

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