Captcha Plugin

[fraenkiman]

Hello everyone,

there is an updated (fp)Captcha plugin again.

New features:

• Revised captcha image

• Refresh link added

• New font Schoolbell-pMMy.ttf, which can be used personally, but also commercially

• Added check for required PHP extensions

• Error message in server log with active Accessible Antispam Plugin fixed

Download as always via the wiki.

Have a good start into the new week
Frank

[fraenkiman]

Hello everyone,

there is a bugfix version 1.1.1 available, because
it was not possible to refresh the captcha image when using the Firefox browser.

With best regards
Frank

[fraenkiman]

Hello everyone,

Artificial intelligence seems to be flooding one or two FlatPress blogs with spam comments. Not visible to the visitor by default, but sorting out a lot in the comment center and disposing of the garbage. The AI has been able to calculate for a long time, so I spent the weekend making things a little more difficult for it.

A new version is available for download via the wiki.

New features:

• More resistant to bots/OCR because the image now uses real 24-bit color with alpha channel.

• Overall, the CAPTCHA is more difficult to crack using automated text recognition.

• New invisible field (“honeypot”) blocks more bots.

• Hidden timestamp field ensures that a captcha is only valid for a limited time.

• If the bot takes less than 6 seconds to enter, this leads to an error.

• In addition to the image captcha, an audio captcha is now also offered if the server supports eSpeak or eSpeak-NG.

• More robust security/rate limiting mechanisms.

With best regards
Frank