February 5, 2010
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Answer:
The fight between Seraph and Neo in The Matrix: Reloaded is a personification version CHAP. Captchas, are one of the most widely used CHAP based technologies.




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February 6th, 2010 at 12:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265417473 )
Seraph from the Matrix was supposed to be a personification of a challenge-capture authentication, a la captchas.
February 6th, 2010 at 3:42 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265427776 )
The fight between Neo and Seraph in Matrix Reloaded is of the challenge-response sort, just like Captchas are; a reverse Turing test
February 6th, 2010 at 4:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265429475 )
Something to do with artificial intelligence? Machines getting self-aware?
February 6th, 2010 at 4:45 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265431543 )
Challenge-response authentication?
Seraph vs: anyone seeking the Oracle (such as Neo).
and
Captcha vs:… You.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:26 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265437561 )
Seraph is a CHAP (Challenge-handshake authentication protocol), captchas both authenticate users (although I guess a captcha checks whether someone is human – guess you can call that authentication too).
February 6th, 2010 at 9:19 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265447959 )
Captchas belong to a broad class of problems called ‘Challenge response authentication’, where the user is posed with a crypto/ non-crypto task and has to figure out the solution to be authenticated.
Neo: User
Seraph: the ‘captcha’ guarding the oracle.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:49 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265449756 )
variations of Turing test?
In the movie Matrix, Seraph(Pic 1), Oracle’s guardian, has a fight to test if Neo is the One
CAPTCHA – Completely automated public turing test to tell computers and humans apart
February 6th, 2010 at 8:36 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1265488617 )
challenge response authentication protocol
1. seraph is supposed to be personification of this protocol
2. captcha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.....entication
February 6th, 2010 at 8:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1265489605 )
Challenge response authentication
February 7th, 2010 at 1:24 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265505897 )
Challenge-response authentication
February 7th, 2010 at 3:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1265514204 )
Seraph from The Matrix is a form of Challenge-response authentication. As is reCaptcha.