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I need a Captcha decoder for python to read simple image captchas like the following picture: Do you know of a library that can help me read this captcha? If you don't know of a library for reading captchas, could you help me to read this (and others like this) with PIL? I hope this captcha is not used anywhere. Following is a dummy way to decode it. Basically what you need are the patterns from 0 to 9 as present in these captchas. From your examples, I have only the patterns for 0 3 4 5 7 8. Since everything is fixed on them, you know where to split each character. You also know each

Of all the forms of CAPTCHA available, which one is the "least crackable" while remaining fairly human readable? I agree with Thomas. Captcha is on its way out. But if you must use it, reCAPTCHA is a pretty good provider with a simple API. I believe that CAPTCHA is dying. If someone really wants to break it, it will be broken. I read (somewhere, don't remember where) about a site that gave you free porn in exchange for answering CAPTCHAs to they can be rendered obsolete by bots. So, why bother? Anyone who really wants to break this padlock can use a pair of bolt cutters, so why bother with the

GMail can used as a SMTP server. I've written the code that does it. But as we all know GMail may occasionally authenticate using captcha ( image verification as they call it). The same thing may be the cause to reject SMTP authentication. As I've seen google shows image verification when you try to log-in for the first time from some machine. All consecutive log-ins from the same machine (to the same account) use regular login. I'm a bit afraid this captcha may also come up again for some other reasons that I can't control. So. Is it possible to still authenticate when special measures are

I am trying to send emails from Django using an email configured by Google Apps, my configuration at the settings.py file looks something like this: EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'contact@mydomain.com' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password' EMAIL_PORT = 587 EMAIL_USE_TLS = True When I try to send an email using: from django.core.mail import send_mail send_mail("Happy new year", "We wish you the best for 3001", "contact@mydomain.com", ["someuser@gmail.com"]) I get the following error: SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, '5.7.1 Please log in with your web browser and then try again. Learn

I'm looking for a replacement for JCaptcha, which doesn't seem to be maintained any more, and isn't very good to begin with. The replacement has to integrate nicely with JavaEE webapps. As I can see it, there are three options: JCaptcha - No longer maintained, crude API SimpleCaptcha - much nicer API, nicer captchas, but seems to be Java6 only ReCaptcha - easy to use, uses remote web-service to generate captchas, but not much control over look and feel Has anyone used any others, that they'd recommend? Francis ReCaptcha is the only captcha you should use, because it's the only captcha that

I've seen web apps with limitations for user login attempts. Is it a security necessity and, if so, why? For example: you had three failed login attempts, let's try again in 10 minutes!! Clarification This is a completion to the other answers. Using a good implemented captcha alongside an anti-bruteforce mechanism using sessions for example. The questioner marked this as accepted assuming that captchas are unreadable by machines (she's almost right) and so it's getting negative points, because people think it's not a complete answer & they're right. Also using a good implemented CAPTCHA could

I have a Wordpress blog and the only user input is the commenting system. I want to totally avoid spam comments. Wordpress comes with Akismet but I can also use Captcha. Which plugin/method should I use? My client doesn't mind users entering verification strings to post comments. If I adopt either Akisment or Captcha will I be able to completely control the spam? Is it possible to use either Akismet or Captcha for a simple 4-digit verification? If not then please also recommend a plugin/method capable of just a 4-digit verification. The captchas seem to be fooled by adept people. The Akismet