[keycloak-dev] Brute force attack protection

[Bill Burke]

On 3/17/2014 9:54 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> We could do the sleep on the client side. We'd set a flag on the account saying it's disabled until some time in the future. If an account is locked we can display a page that says wait N seconds (or something), and after N seconds redirect redirect to login form using meta refresh.
>

This creates a very easy DoS opportunity.


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