TOPIC: New Captcha Engine

This is a raise of interest, I would mainly like to share this with Daniel as he is away right now but everybody else can comment anyway

While working on some new templates I did some quick Googling on Captcha engines, and managed to find one that is in Joomla-extension form for CB registration and a few other things.

ideal.fok.com.br/joomla/extensions/plugi...urimage-captcha.html

It has a choice of using three opensource/free engines - SecurImage, ReCAPTCHA or (my personal favorite) MathGuard.

I know you are thinking about integrating new Captcha into a later JoomlaComment version Daniel, perhaps it would be easier to integrate this extension?

I was looking at the code myself to see if I could do it, but it's a liitle bit advanced for me What do you think?

EDIT: The SecurImage is pretty decent for a simple Captcha engine as a new default, and is Lesser GNU v2.1 licence. www.phpcaptcha.org/captcha-gallery/ is the gallery for that engine, the one at www.phpcaptcha.org/images/gallery/19.jpg is actually very good according to my own knowledge of spambots - it uses GDF fonts so the "dots" in the font are random, it really messes with Spambot OCR.

Well, I don't think that we should relly on this extension. Ajay Lulia is working on recaptcha, we have a request for mathGuard, so all this things are going to come with future versions.

Aha - I remember you speaking of this

I'm very interested in the Mathguard myself, is it much better at blocking spambots than the current basic captcha code? I noticed its not on the devsite Issue Tracker yet so I take it it hasn't been assigned.

Anywho no point in keeping this topic active