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October 4, 2016 04:00 pm

CloudFlare Working On New System That Removes CAPTCHAs For Tor Users

Tor users have long criticized CloudFlare for annoying CAPTCHAs, but it appears the CDN provider is finally working on a fix. An anonymous reader writes: CloudFlare is working on a new system called "Challenge Bypass Specification," which it wants to deploy as a Tor Browser extension and replace the CAPTCHAs Tor users see when trying to access a website protected by CloudFlare. This new system will have users solve one CAPTCHA at the beginning and after that, the browser extension will use nonces (one-time authentication tokens) to prove the user's real identity before accessing a CloudFlare-protected site.

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