Re: Captcha testing

James Green <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.websecurity,gmane.comp.security.basics,gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You might also want to go through the paper mentioned in the post.

 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/analyzing_captc.html

 - jg


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Marco M. Morana <[email protected]>wrote:

> I suggest using the testing of CAPTCHA using the test case of the OWASP
> testing guide (AT 08)
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:21 AM, rajat swarup <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Kiran Kumar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I required to test captcha feature. Is there any standards to test this
> >> feature? please suggest me any materials & tools.
> >>
> > Typically CAPTCHAs are implemented mostly as an afterthought.  One of
> > the things that I've seen is simply submitting the form by removing
> > the CAPTCHA parameters and the "captcha required flag" altogether and
> > the forms still seem to work.  It's a very basic test but seems to
> > work a lot.
> >
> > Also, sometimes replay might work.  So as long as you have one right
> > CAPTCHA you can replay the form multiple times with that same CAPTCHA
> > and things do work.
> >
> > Hope it helps!
> > --
> > Rajat Swarup
> > www.rajatswarup.com
> >
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