[keycloak-dev] Brute force attack protection

[Bill Burke]

On 3/17/2014 10:13 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> For a single user yes. Is that a big problem though?
>

I don't know.  All the hacker needs to know is a list of emails and 
could lock down a large set of users.  Plus the users being hacked are 
also locked out.


> If you sleep on the server you'd be able to do a DoS on the whole server (even if async) with a single machine.
>

Ugh, I guess the hacker could just ignore responses that are blocking.


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