note 114841 added to function.sleep
| From: | ashb | Date: | Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:57:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 114841 added to function.sleep | ||
| Groups: | php.notes | ||
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re: "mitigating the chances of a full bruit force attack by a limit of 30 lookups a
minute."
Not really - the attacker could do 100 requests. Each request might take 2 seconds but it
doesn't stop the number of requests done. You need to stop processing more than one request
every 2 seconds rather than delay it by 2 seconds on each execution.
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Server IP: 72.52.91.14
Probable Submitter: 198.144.104.19 (proxied: 91.226.23.192)
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