Designing human friendly human interaction proofs (HIPs)

HIPs, or Human Interactive Proofs, are challenges meant to be easily solved by humans, while remaining too hard to be economically solved by computers. HIPs are increasingly used to protect services against automatic script attacks. To be effective, a HIP must be difficult enough to discourage script attacks by raising the computation and/or development cost of breaking the HIP to an unprofitable level. At the same time, the HIP must be easy enough to solve in order to not discourage humans from using the service. Early HIP designs have successfully met these criteria [1]. However, the growing sophistication of attackers and correspondingly increasing profit incentives have rendered most of the currently deployed HIPs vulnerable to attack [2,7,12]. Yet, most companies have been reluctant to increase the difficulty of their HIPs for fear of making them too complex or unappealing to humans. The purpose of this study is to find the visual distortions that are most effective at foiling co...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Kumar Chellapilla, Kevin Larson, Patrice Y. Simard, Mary Czerwinski
• Keywords: CHI 2005, Human Computer Interaction, Human Interactive Proofs, Parameters Renders Hips, Script Attacks