How to check if a string contains a stool in PHP?

Question

I am making a registration form for a website, and because I'm sure everyone is going to introduce some kind of gibberish into entering a secret answer (I do it myself), I would like to programmatically check this value to find out to be a good answer.

I took a look at the function that generates Markov chains (see below) in PHP, but I don’t know how to test a string in an array of chains to actually detect% accuracy of a given answer.

Has anyone here done something like this? How did you solve it or did you give it up?

thanks

function generateCaptchaTextMarkov($length) { $transitionMatrix = array( 0.0001, 0.0218, 0.0528, 0.1184, 0.1189, 0.1277, 0.1450, 0.1458, 0.1914, 0.1915, 0.2028, 0.2792, 0.3131, 0.5293, 0.5304, 0.5448, 0.5448, 0.6397, 0.7581, 0.9047, 0.9185, 0.9502, 0.9600, 0.9601, 0.9982, 1.0000, 0.0893, 0.0950, 0.0950, 0.0950, 0.4471, 0.4471, 0.4471, 0.4471, 0.4784, 0.4821, 0.4821, 0.6075, 0.6078, 0.6078, 0.7300, 0.7300, 0.7300, 0.7979, 0.8220, 0.8296, 0.9342, 0.9348, 0.9351, 0.9351, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.1313, 0.1317, 0.1433, 0.1433, 0.3264, 0.3264, 0.3264, 0.4887, 0.5454, 0.5454, 0.5946, 0.6255, 0.6255, 0.6255, 0.8022, 0.8022, 0.8035, 0.8720, 0.8753, 0.9545, 0.9928, 0.9928, 0.9928, 0.9928, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.0542, 0.0587, 0.0590, 0.0840, 0.3725, 0.3837, 0.3879, 0.3887, 0.5203, 0.5208, 0.5211, 0.5390, 0.5435, 0.5550, 0.8183, 0.8191, 0.8191, 0.8759, 0.9376, 0.9400, 0.9629, 0.9648, 0.9664, 0.9664, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.0860, 0.0877, 0.1111, 0.2533, 0.3017, 0.3125, 0.3183, 0.3211, 0.3350, 0.3355, 0.3378, 0.4042, 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0.0183, 0.0379, 0.0410, 0.1451, 0.1494, 0.1514, 0.1654, 0.1656, 0.1866, 0.2171, 0.2821, 0.4272, 0.4761, 0.4926, 0.4927, 0.6434, 0.6722, 0.7195, 0.9126, 0.9332, 0.9913, 0.9925, 0.9999, 1.0000, 0.1596, 0.1688, 0.1688, 0.1688, 0.3799, 0.3799, 0.3799, 0.4011, 0.4827, 0.4827, 0.4833, 0.6081, 0.6087, 0.6090, 0.7353, 0.7953, 0.7953, 0.8804, 0.9181, 0.9584, 0.9952, 0.9952, 0.9952, 0.9952, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.0902, 0.0938, 0.1003, 0.1555, 0.4505, 0.4606, 0.4705, 0.4740, 0.5928, 0.5928, 0.6018, 0.6201, 0.6402, 0.6605, 0.7619, 0.7666, 0.7671, 0.8125, 0.8645, 0.9029, 0.9226, 0.9298, 0.9319, 0.9319, 0.9996, 1.0000, 0.0584, 0.0598, 0.0903, 0.0912, 0.2850, 0.2870, 0.2883, 0.3902, 0.5057, 0.5058, 0.5165, 0.5271, 0.5400, 0.5447, 0.6525, 0.6762, 0.6792, 0.6792, 0.7512, 0.9370, 0.9843, 0.9851, 0.9953, 0.9953, 0.9999, 1.0000, 0.0416, 0.0419, 0.0466, 0.0467, 0.1673, 0.1696, 0.1697, 0.6314, 0.7003, 0.7003, 0.7003, 0.7142, 0.7150, 0.7160, 0.8626, 0.8626, 0.8627, 0.9023, 0.9255, 0.9498, 0.9746, 0.9746, 0.9812, 0.9812, 0.9998, 1.0000, 0.0141, 0.0308, 0.0668, 0.0877, 0.1241, 0.1282, 0.1874, 0.1874, 0.2191, 0.2192, 0.2210, 0.3626, 0.3794, 0.4618, 0.4632, 0.5097, 0.5097, 0.6957, 0.8373, 0.9949, 0.9949, 0.9961, 0.9963, 0.9982, 0.9984, 1.0000, 0.0740, 0.0740, 0.0740, 0.0740, 0.8423, 0.8423, 0.8423, 0.8423, 0.9486, 0.9486, 0.9486, 0.9486, 0.9486, 0.9491, 0.9836, 0.9836, 0.9836, 0.9849, 0.9849, 0.9849, 0.9907, 0.9907, 0.9907, 0.9907, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.2785, 0.2789, 0.2795, 0.2823, 0.4088, 0.4118, 0.4118, 0.6070, 0.7774, 0.7774, 0.7782, 0.7840, 0.7840, 0.8334, 0.9704, 0.9704, 0.9704, 0.9861, 0.9996, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.0741, 0.0741, 0.1963, 0.1963, 0.2519, 0.2741, 0.2741, 0.3333, 0.4000, 0.4000, 0.4000, 0.4000, 0.4000, 0.4000, 0.4037, 0.6741, 0.7667, 0.7667, 0.7667, 0.9667, 0.9963, 0.9963, 0.9963, 0.9963, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.0082, 0.0130, 0.0208, 0.0225, 0.1587, 0.1608, 0.1613, 0.1686, 0.2028, 0.2028, 0.2032, 0.2322, 0.2391, 0.2417, 0.8232, 0.8314, 0.8314, 0.8409, 0.9529, 0.9965, 0.9965, 0.9965, 0.9991, 0.9996, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.0678, 0.0678, 0.0763, 0.0763, 0.7373, 0.7373, 0.7373, 0.7458, 0.8729, 0.8729, 0.8729, 0.8814, 0.8814, 0.8814, 0.9237, 0.9237, 0.9237, 0.9237, 0.9237, 0.9407, 0.9492, 0.9492, 0.9492, 0.9492, 0.9492, 1.0000 ); $chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'; $captchaText = ''; $char = rand(0, 25); for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) { $captchaText .= chr($char + 65 + 32); // Look up next char in transition matrix $next = rand(0, 10000) / 10000; for ($j = 0; $j < 26; $j++) { if ($next < $transitionMatrix[$char * 26 + $j]) { $char = $j; break; } } } return $captchaText; } 

Edit 2011-02-04:

I came up with a simple solution. I believe that the letters in the gibberish line are likely to contain the same letters over and over again, I came up with this little function:

 echo contains_gibberish( "heiahihaiaheiah" ); function contains_gibberish( $input ) { $result = array(); for($i = 0; $i < strlen( $input ); $i++) { if ( isset( $result[ $input[ $i ] ] ) ) { $result[ $input[ $i ] ]++; } else { $result[ $input[ $i ] ] = 1; } } return ( max( $result ) / strlen( $input ) * 100 >= 33 ) ? true : false; } 

What do you guys think?

Answer 1

Ask the user to repeat the secret answer again (as when setting new passwords). Also hide the entered text, as with passwords [input type = "password"]. This will make it impossible to copy the response and paste into the retype field. Therefore, their best solution is to use a secret answer that makes sense to them.

I do not think that any algorithmic way of checking gibberish would be very accurate, because "gibberish" is relative :)

Answer 2

Although the following method would not be very accurate, in my opinion , you could compile a set of English rules and compare them with them.

The only way I see around is a (and not at all an ideal solution) system that raises certain flags when something is suspicious.

English (and each language) has certain features, and if you see that they are not fulfilled, this may also be an indication of gibberish.

I "would create a system that adds points when the criteria are satisfied, and after some points the user receives a warning.

Some examples:

Consecutive Consonants:

• 3 consonants in a row => 5 points (many exceptions, such as "chrome")
• 4 consonants in a row => 15 points
• 5 consonants in a row => 30 points
• 6 consonants in a row => 60 points (I can’t think of a lot of words)

(The point system is, of course, an example!)

The same applies to consecutive vowels .

Special symbols:

This should add some points if they appear and are not native to the language of the site.

(| # ¢ ∞¬ ÷ "≠) etc.

How could they be typos because of gibberish.

Length:

After a certain length, each letter should begin to add dots. A 28-letter word is not as likely as a 7-letter word.

These are the ones that I like, of course, this is not an exact (or even good) science.

You can also try several "General gibberish" :

You can search for combinations, for example:

LETTER Asdfg zxcvb uiop or whatever ever.

Of course, this last one is completely random and will probably cover very little , but you can do as much as you want.

So, this is the best that I could come up with now, I am sure that there are much more rules and features of the English grammar that you could use to your advantage, but this will only give you a certain probability, t be sure to make your rules mandatory! in any case, something like a warning: "If you put a completely random answer, you may not remember it later."

This is a very complex question, but a very interesting IMO question, my answer, of course, covers only a very small part, which would avoid some answers like "ksfjdngssjk", although it would be very easy to configure such a system with PHP and try it.

Good luck