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Brute force protection (rytter.me)
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Brute force protection

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[–] chraebsli@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

You can't really prevent a brute force attack. Even if you prevent it from one IP or so, you can still do "distributed" brute force attacks.

Also only allowing one password per 5 seconds or so per IP will not work if you have lots of users and they are at work and have the same IP.