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CAPTCHA: a standalone construct

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Computer security

an automatically generated test that most humans pass but current programs cannot, used to tell people from bots.

In computer security, CAPTCHA refers to an automatically generated test that most humans pass but current programs cannot, used to tell people from bots. This meaning comes from von Ahn (2003) in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.[1]

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References

von Ahn, L., Blum, M., Hopper, N. J., & Langford, J. (2003). CAPTCHA: Using Hard AI Problems for Security. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 294-311). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39200-9_18

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