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Brute force protection (rytter.me)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Brute force protection

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months 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.