Hello all you beautiful techies! Will here and I bet you felt that pain. Everyone has. Those CAPTCHA tests you have to take to log into a service just to prove you aren’t a robot…

However, it looks like Cloudflare wishes to change those annoyingly pixelated images for a less maddening way to prove you are human. 

For those of you who don’t know, CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing to tell Computers and Humans Apart, *breath* man that’s one heck of a sentence, are the current tests to prove you are a human. This is done by selecting busses, crosswalks or bicycles in a grid and hope you don’t miss the corner of one.

Crosswalks… I’m looking at you, you sneaky sneaky lines…

Cloudflare has come up with a new way to prove you are a human by touching or looking at a device using a system it calls “Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood.” Right now, it only supports a limited number of USB security keys like YubiKeys, but you can test Cloudflare’s system for yourself right now on the company’s website.

https://www.cloudflarechallenge.com/ 

In their blog the company made earlier, they stated, “The short version is that your device has an embedded secure module containing a unique secret sealed by your manufacturer. The security module is capable of proving it owns such a secret without revealing it. Cloudflare asks you for proof and checks that your manufacturer is legitimate.”

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attestation-of-personhood/

The evolution away from the CAPTCHA has been a long time coming. The internet has evolved and so has AI in terms of breaking security. And security is one of the biggest things any company should look at from an IT perspective.

Do you prefer those annoying CAPTCHAs or will you be trying out Cloudflare’s new method of proving we aren’t pigeons or robots? Let us know in the comments down below. Subscribe to the channel to stay up to date. And as always, I’ll see you guys in the next video.