Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia CAPTCHA repair

2011-11-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 11/04/2011 05:41 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: On 03/11/11 03:59, Neil Harris wrote: snip http://elie.im/publication/text-based-captcha-strengths-and-weaknesses snip Accordingly, I've reworked the 2005-era CAPTCHA-image-generating Python script in the CAPTCHA engine in a way that I hope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia CAPTCHA repair

2011-11-04 Thread Antoine Musso
On 03/11/11 03:59, Neil Harris wrote: snip http://elie.im/publication/text-based-captcha-strengths-and-weaknesses snip Accordingly, I've reworked the 2005-era CAPTCHA-image-generating Python script in the CAPTCHA engine in a way that I hope should be a drop-in replacement for the existing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia CAPTCHA repair

2011-11-03 Thread Niklas Laxström
On 3 November 2011 04:59, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: Accordingly, I've reworked the 2005-era CAPTCHA-image-generating Python script in the CAPTCHA engine in a way that I hope should be a drop-in replacement for the existing script. Would anyone be interested in taking a look at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia CAPTCHA repair

2011-11-03 Thread Platonides
Neil Harris wrote: Would anyone be interested in taking a look at the code and some sample output? -- Neil Sure. Explaining so much but providing no sample isn't too useful, as you're left in the theorical world. PS: if people will start making new captcha generators, note that -other

[Wikitech-l] Wikipedia CAPTCHA repair

2011-11-02 Thread Neil Harris
Now that the Wikipedia CAPTCHA has been comprehensively broken by Burzstein et. al. in their paper Text-based CAPTCHA Strengths and Weaknesses: http://elie.im/publication/text-based-captcha-strengths-and-weaknesses it's time to fix the current CAPTCHA system while there is still no evidence