From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-07-05T11:53:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] flatulent-0.0.1 ascii captcha for the masses


On Jul 4, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Sammy Larbi wrote:

> From when does it start counting?

from when the response it served.  a timebomb is encoded in the form  
with a server-side key.

to set the key

   Flatulent.key = 'hostname or something'

to set the timebomb threshold

   Flatulent.ttl = 120 # seconds


>   If I've read a blog post and then try to comment, it's likely  
> I've already used more than 60 seconds.  In fact, probably most of  
> the time I take more than 60 seconds to comment by itself.
>
> I think a good protection scheme will take into account several  
> factors, assign them points for failure (or passing), and once a  
> threshold has been reached, fail the entire thing (or pass it, if  
> you chose that route).

indeed, internally we also will also track ip and greylist after n  
attempts.

cheers.

-a
--
we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being  
better. simply reflect on that.
h.h. the 14th dalai lama