Re: MD5 & bot Question

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On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 08:46 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 1:21 AM -0700 4/9/07, Micky Hulse wrote:
> >Maybe use flash for this... harder to crack? (Of course, Flash will 
> >open door to other problems.)
> >
> >Sorry, coming in on this late. Good work Tedd! Very interesting.
> 
> 
> M:
> 
> Tijnema showed how MD5 could be used to identify an image file and 
> crack my arrow captcha. That's really what this thread was about. I 
> finally came up with enough variations to make it impractical.
> 
> However, this did make me wonder about the images that M$ and others 
> are using for captchas -- like find the kitty in a set of pictures. 
> The MD5 application could be used to identify as many pictures as any 
> spammer would need. So, I think MD5 method, as described in this 
> thread, would work very well to crack those type of captchas.

I doubt Microsoft is using a static image repository for captchas.

Cheers,
Rob.
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