note 90665 deleted from function.sleep by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Mon, 04 May 2009 12:54:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 90665 deleted from function.sleep by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: diego a messenger do dsemmler do de
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@ the comment of marpetr at gmail dot com:
It's a very bad idea to protect logins against password brute forcing by sleeping your script,
because the attacker can start multiple requests at once and so knock out the protection.
Here's a better way to protect accounts against brute forcing:
On every missed login add one to the counter of ip-address and / or account and take the time.
If the counter reaches 5 (for example), don't check the password anymore, let the script just
say "no".
If the time is more than 24 h ago, you can check the password again.