Brute force protection

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  • T. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 years ago

    How does that stop a brute force attack? As written, it only stops the single luckiest brute force attack that happens to get the password right on their first try.

    • chraebsli@programming.dev
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      2 years ago

      You can’t really prevent a brute force attack. Even if you prevent it from one IP or so, you can still do “distributed” brute force attacks.

      Also only allowing one password per 5 seconds or so per IP will not work if you have lots of users and they are at work and have the same IP.

    • pythonoob@programming.dev
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      2 years ago

      It wouldn’t stop most brute force attacks, which are not performed on the live web service, but rather on a password hasb list that was stolen via some other means.