 | | Password crack detection and slowing (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships) —Todd Lehman
| | | | (...) I've been thinking about this more tonight, and reading a bit about SysV semaphores, but I don't have experience with them and I'm finding the docs confusing, especially where Perl is concerned. Anyway, upon further reflection, I wonder if (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Password crack detection and slowing (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships) —Todd Lehman
| | | | | (...) Oh! One other thing, duh. An advantage this has over pure semaphores or mutexes is that, since it has a sort of "memory" about how many times an IP address has recent sent a failure, it could easily respond with immediate 403 errors (upon (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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