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Brute force protection (rytter.me)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Brute force protection

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[–] [email protected] 188 points 8 months ago (13 children)

It's not quite complete without code on the password reset page to tell you that you can't reuse your password.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I never got that rule. Surely it is less secure to keep records of historical passwords than to let someone rotate between !!!! And #### etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Hopefully they're not sitting the old passwords in plain text and just have the hashes.

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