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<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work>proof-of-work</a> based
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CAPTCHA system that doesn’t track. Seriously, no tracking. But that
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isn’t the killer feature, our system doesn’t require the user to
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pick cars or ID sidewalks — our system does it’s thing(usually
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at the click of a button) and gets out of the way.</p><h2 id=how-does-it-work>How does it work?</h2><p>mCaptcha uses SHA256 based proof-of-work(PoW) to rate limit users.</p><p>When a user wants to do something on an mCaptcha-protected website,</p><ol><li><p>they will have to generate proof-of-work(a bunch of math that will
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takes time to compute) and submit it to mCaptcha.</p></li><li><p>We’ll validate the proof:</p></li></ol><ul><li>if validation is unsuccessful, they will be prevented from accessing
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the destination website</li><li>if validation is successful, read on,</li></ul><ol start=3><li><p>They will be issued a token that should be submit along with the
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request/form to the destination website.</p></li><li><p>The destination website validates the submitted token with
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mCaptcha before processing the request.</p></li></ol><p>The whole process is automated from the user’s point of view. All they
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have to do is click on a button to initiate the process.</p><h2 id=okay-but-what-about-bad-actors>Okay, but what about bad actors?</h2><p>mCaptcha makes interacting with websites (computationally)expensive for
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the user. A well-behaving user will experience a slight delay(no delay
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when under moderate load to 2-3 seconds when under attack; PoW difficulty is
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variable) but if someone wants to hammer your site, they will have to do
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more work to send requests than your server you will have to do to respond
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to their request.</p><h2 id=why-use-mcaptcha>Why use mCaptcha?</h2><ul><li><strong>Free software, privacy focused</strong></li><li><strong>Seamless</strong> UX — No more annoying CAPTCHAs!</li><li><strong>IP address independent:</strong> your users are behind a NAT? We got you covered!</li><li><strong>Automatic bot throttling</strong></li><li><strong>Resistant to replay attacks:</strong> proof-of-work configurations have short lifetimes(30s) and can be used only once. If a user submits a PoW to an already used configuration or an expired one, their proof will be rejected.</li></ul><h2 id=how-to-migrate>How to migrate?</h2><p>Our client libraries are mostly compatible with reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha.
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A detailed guide will be published soon.</p><h2 id=our-philosophy>Our Philosophy</h2><p>Man has has come so far only because our ancestors chose to
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share their knowledge with others. If everything was labeled
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intellectual property, we might still be stuck in Stone Age. The idea of
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intellectual property is alien to us. For this reason, all of our source
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code is freely available(both as in freedom and beers) at <a href=https://github.com/mCaptcha/>our
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GitHub</a>.</p><h2 id=resources>Resources</h2><ul><li><a href=https://github.com/mCaptcha/guard>guard</a> - mCaptcha backend <code>AGPL</code></li><li><a href=https://github.com/mCaptcha/browser>frontend library</a> - mCaptcha frontend library. <code>MIT/APACHE</code></li></ul></article><div class="docs-navigation d-flex justify-content-between"><a href=/blog/pow-performance/><div class="card my-1"><div class="card-body py-2">← PoW performance</div></div></a></div><p class=edit-page><a href=https://git.batsense.net/mCaptcha/website/blob/master/content/blog/say-hello-to-mcaptcha/index.md><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentcolor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-edit-2"><path d="M17 3a2.828 2.828.0 114 4L7.5 20.5 2 22l1.5-5.5L17 3z"/></svg>Edit this page on git.batsense.net</a></p></main></div></div></div><footer class="footer text-muted"><div class=container><div class=row><div class="col-lg-8 order-last order-lg-first"><ul class=list-inline><li class=list-inline-item>Powered by <a href=https://gohugo.io/>Hugo</a>, and <a href=https://getdoks.org/>Doks</a></li></ul></div><div class="col-lg-8 order-first order-lg-last text-lg-end"><ul class=list-inline><li class=list-inline-item><a href=/about/>About</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=/donate>Donate</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=/privacy-policy/>Privacy</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=/security>Security</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=https://stats.uptimerobot.com/GK7VLFJnBl>Status</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=/thanks>Thanks</a></li></ul></div></div></div></footer><script src=/main.min.993b2b4c58b07e7a4bb3423cf18ccd78a85d0063680c0fc9bf6d9cc02be98e08793034d984dd8f7c60ad5b70f3186cc8bc280b1077b7e37c2d64f36f118099bb.js integrity="sha512-mTsrTFiwfnpLs0I88YzNeKhdAGNoDA/Jv22cwCvpjgh5MDTZhN2PfGCtW3DzGGzIvCgLEHe343wtZPNvEYCZuw==" crossorigin=anonymous defer></script><script src=/index.min.54509ba7c5e639f5ec4ae9409f76e99f01de45aae0c450b398bb04083016dc4213a82a49528708fd7d36c22e60debacd894f3dbdc3a30fa796132f9a541ccdab.js integrity="sha512-VFCbp8XmOfXsSulAn3bpnwHeRargxFCzmLsECDAW3EITqCpJUocI/X02wi5g3rrNiU89vcOjD6eWEy+aVBzNqw==" crossorigin=anonymous defer></script></body></html> |