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mykkal · #86 02-06-2013, 02:01 PM

Cosign...

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Originally Posted by kh99

Well, as cellarius pointed out, if someone had stolen the database the thing to do would be to use the hashed passwords and salt values to try to crack the passwords on a local computer. Using a stolen database just to get the usernames for a brute force attack would be pretty stupid (but, well, I suppose there are people like that around).

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brute force is an attempt to login...Not the aftermath of data stolen. If someone had the data they could just clone the site, login, and do whatever without fear of being caught.

I don't think brute force should be by username but by IP because the intruder is foreign and blocking by username would lock out the legitimate user. Just create a strong password and that is enough. Mixed with symbols, numbers, and letters a strong password would take until infinity to crack. That's totally safe.

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