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EU CAPTCHA, an Open Source solution for all Web services, distributed
under EUPL-1.2  

EU CAPTCHA under EUPL-1.2

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Patrice-Emmanuel SCHMITZ
Published on: 09/01/2023 Last update: 18/04/2023 News

EU CAPTCHA is a test intended to distinguish human from machine
input. It prevents the use of bots/machines (e.g. for automated
account creation) in the framework of services provided by EU
Institutions.
Distributed under the EUPL-1.2 licence, EU CAPTCHA is available from
the EC Gitlab as an open source API and can therefore be used by
everyone (public or private entities) for securing web services
through a user friendly and multilingual solution.

The API supports three types of CAPTCHA:

  * Alphanumeric CAPTCHA with audio transcription;
  * Image rotation CAPTCHA.
  * Sliding CAPTCHA.

Why EU CAPTCHA?

Several CAPTCHA solutions exist on the market, either provided as
components or as services. Unfortunately, they all have one or more
of the following shortcomings:

  * They provide an insufficient level of security with a high rate
    of false positives;
  * They provide an insufficient level of user friendliness with a
    high rate of false negatives;
  * They are not or insufficiently maintained;
  * They do not support internationalisation or multilingualism and,
    in particular, they do not support all official languages of the
    European Union;
  * They do not support users with disabilities;
  * They do not have a licensing model that is compatible with EUPL
    and, in particular, they cannot be distributed as part of systems
    provided by public administrations;
  * They raise ethical concerns because they collect private data or
    provide puzzles whose resolution creates commercial value.

The objectives of the action initiated under the ISA programme for
providing EU-CAPTCHA are:

 1. providing (for free) an open source component, operable as a
    service;
 2. a secure and user friendly solution;
 3. multilingual with support for all official languages from the
    European Union;
 4. accessible by users with disabilities;
 5. compliant with the highest level of data protection rules and
    best practices;
 6. maintained with continuous support for subsequent versions of the
    Java Virtual Machine.

More information: https://code.europa.eu/eu-captcha/EU-CAPTCHA

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