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International Journal of Engineering Research in Computer Science and Engineering (IJERCSE)

Monthly Journal for Computer Science and Engineering

Open Access Journal

International Journal of Engineering Research in Computer Science and Engineering (IJERCSE)

Monthly Journal for Computer Science and Engineering

ISSN : 2394-2320 (Online)

Captcha as Graphical Password

Author : Greeshma Pillai 1 Radhika Nair 2 Rudhra Menon 3

Date of Publication :7th March 2016

Abstract: As a security measure, nowadays, most systems have a mechanism for authenticating the user in order to log onto the system and exploit its functionalities. This can be done in different ways like entering a password, providing a fingerprint, voice pattern sample, inserting a smart card, or using some other means to prove to the system that you are who you claim to be. The commonly used authentication schemes, which involve text based passwords, have inherent security and usability problems. This resulted in the development of different graphical passwords schemes. The existing password authentication mainly focuses on using textual passwords and a Captcha authentication which is easily susceptible to relay attacks. Thus we propose a new security primitive based on hard AI problems, which involves integrating graphical password scheme and Captcha technology, which we name as Captcha as graphical passwords (CaRP).

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