[tpop3d-discuss] Patch to prevent brute force password cracking

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:35:16PM +0200, Yann GROSSEL wrote:
> - delayed error responses (at least during authentification), to
> prevent an attacker from doing brute force password cracking. That

Cool idea.

FWIW, I'd personally prefer to see it down to a couple of seconds
(rather than five), #define'd somewhere (maybe) and, for style points
and to prevent irritation during debugging, only doing the delay after
the *second (2nd)* authentication failure.

Also FWIW, in practice a single second is enough to prevent a
password attack.

Cheers,
Paul


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