Difference between revisions of "Testing for Captcha (OWASP-AT-012)"

Revision as of 00:11, 18 November 2013

This article is part of the new OWASP Testing Guide v4.

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WARNING: Captcha protection is considered to be an ineffective security mechanism!

Most current used Captcha images can be easily cracked in a fully automated way using many commercial or opensource services. Commercial services are usually very cheap and provide a simple API for most programming languages.
It is not recommended to use Captcha protection for security-critical applications, in this case it is more suitable to use SMS text messages or OTP tokens instead.

Brief Summary

CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge-response test used by many web applications to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer.

Description of the Issue

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Black Box testing and example

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