Re: Rejecting weak passwords

Mark,

> I read Josh's original suggestion to eventually evolve to "if a
> particular user account from a particular IP address uses the wrong
> password more than N times in T minutes, than the IP address is locked
> out for U minutes." This is the *only* way of significantly reducing the
> ability of a client to guess the password using "brute force".

As pointed out by others, that was a false assertion.  Most
sophisticated attackers sniff the MD5 password over the network or by
other means, and then brute force match it without trying to connect to
the DB.

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Josh Berkus
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