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Re: Brake inn [message #17211 is a reply to message #17064]

Fri, 19 March 2004 19:03

Gribnif

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I have a couple of suggestions that might help to prevent people from brute-force guessing passwords. Either one would probably work:

1. Limit the number of times a username can have wrong password guesses before it is temporarily disabled. So, if someone tries (and fails) to guess the password for user "Joe" 10 times in a row, the account is disabled for an hour. This should probably also leave a message in the log.

2. Take progressively longer to respond to bad logins. The first time a user enters the wrong password, respond immediately. The second time, sleep for 5 seconds before responding; the third time in a row, 10 seconds.

Either way, it will take a very long time to guess a user's password.

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		Brake inn By: aircool5(at)bellsouth(dot)net on Mon, 15 March 2004 01:29
		Re: Brake inn By: Ilia on Mon, 15 March 2004 13:34
		Re: Brake inn By: aircool5(at)bellsouth(dot)net on Mon, 15 March 2004 18:03
		Re: Brake inn By: Ilia on Mon, 15 March 2004 18:05
		Re: Brake inn By: aircool5(at)bellsouth(dot)net on Mon, 15 March 2004 19:07
		Re: Brake inn By: Gribnif on Fri, 19 March 2004 19:03
		Re: Brake inn By: Ilia on Fri, 19 March 2004 19:12
		Re: Brake inn By: aircool5(at)bellsouth(dot)net on Fri, 19 March 2004 19:37
		Re: Brake inn By: Ilia on Fri, 19 March 2004 19:38
		Re: Brake inn By: aircool5(at)bellsouth(dot)net on Fri, 19 March 2004 19:42

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