CAPTCHaStar! A novel CAPTCHA based on interactive shape discovery
Mauro Conti, Claudio Guarisco, Riccardo Spolaor

TL;DR
CAPTCHaStar introduces an interactive, shape-based CAPTCHA leveraging human shape recognition abilities, demonstrating improved usability and resilience against automated attacks compared to existing solutions.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel image-based CAPTCHA that uses user interaction for shape discovery, enhancing usability and security over traditional CAPTCHAs.
Findings
More user-friendly than text-based CAPTCHAs
More resilient to automated attacks including machine learning-based ones
Effective in distinguishing humans from automated bots
Abstract
Over the last years, most websites on which users can register (e.g., email providers and social networks) adopted CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) as a countermeasure against automated attacks. The battle of wits between designers and attackers of CAPTCHAs led to current ones being annoying and hard to solve for users, while still being vulnerable to automated attacks. In this paper, we propose CAPTCHaStar, a new image-based CAPTCHA that relies on user interaction. This novel CAPTCHA leverages the innate human ability to recognize shapes in a confused environment. We assess the effectiveness of our proposal for the two key aspects for CAPTCHAs, i.e., usability, and resiliency to automated attacks. In particular, we evaluated the usability, carrying out a thorough user study, and we tested the resiliency of our proposal against…
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Taxonomy
TopicsUser Authentication and Security Systems · Face recognition and analysis · Digital Communication and Language
