10 Dec
2004
10 Dec
'04
1:55 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:20:21PM +0000, Paul Reilly wrote:
Then again, the convention net.wisdom at least -used- to be that this was a bad idea, because it became an easy DOS attack.
I take your point. But at the same time if there's no lockout mechanism a brute force attack will eventually guess the passwords.
Tarpitting seems like a good approach, here.
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