Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone][security] New BP for anti brute force in keystone

2016-01-14 Thread Julien Danjou
On Wed, Jan 13 2016, Morgan Fainberg wrote: > A standard method of rate limiting for OpenStack services would be a good > thing to figure out. Apache used as a daemon for WSGI application (e.g. like we do by default in devstack) has support for rate limit for decades – see mod_ratelimit for

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone][security] New BP for anti brute force in keystone

2016-01-13 Thread Jordan Pittier
Hi, Can't you just do some rate limiting at your webserver level ? On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:55 PM, McPeak, Travis wrote: > One issue to be aware of is the use of this as a Denial of Service > vector. Basically an attacker can use this to lock out key accounts > by

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone][security] New BP for anti brute force in keystone

2016-01-13 Thread Morgan Fainberg
A standard method of rate limiting for OpenStack services would be a good thing to figure out. On Jan 13, 2016 02:56, "Jordan Pittier" wrote: > Hi, > Can't you just do some rate limiting at your webserver level ? > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:55 PM, McPeak, Travis

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone][security] New BP for anti brute force in keystone

2016-01-13 Thread Morgan Fainberg
This needs to be proposed as a spec, not just a blueprint. For what it is worth, this has been discussed many times and it was determined that keystone as a project was not interested in really managing the life cycle of passwords on this front. Since we support the use of real Identity Stores

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone][security] New BP for anti brute force in keystone

2016-01-12 Thread McPeak, Travis
One issue to be aware of is the use of this as a Denial of Service vector. Basically an attacker can use this to lock out key accounts by continuously sending invalid passwords. Doing this might have unexpected and undesirable results, particularly in automated tasks. I think this feature has

[openstack-dev] [keystone][security] New BP for anti brute force in keystone

2016-01-11 Thread Youwenwei
I have registered a new bp for keystone with the capability of anti brute force Problem Description: the attacks of account are increasing in the cloud the attacker steals the account information by guessing the password in brute force. therefore, the ability of account in anti brute force is