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Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:02:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> Maybe I'm just miffed because it failed *all* of the passwords I use? :)
Are there any that it gave between 0% and 100% to? (i.e., not < 0% ?)
> [...]
> Just out of curiousity - would LUGNET allow brute-force or trial and error
> attacks? Something like sending an email warning after 3 fails, then locking
> the account for 24 hours after 5 fails would somewhat negate the danger of
> those types of attacks?
Eeek -- no! -- locking people out on a failed login attempt would certainly
negate the danger of a brute-force of attack, but it would make an entirely
new type of attack (an even worse one!) possible. Consider:
$url = <URL of member sign-in page>
foreach $m (1..1000) # Loop over all members
{
foreach (1..5) # Attack each member 5 times
{
$pw = <generate random nonsense>
<HTTP POST to $url with $m and $pw>
}
}
--Todd
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