RE: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-21 Thread Daevid Vincent
Uhmmm.. how effective is a brute force attack where you can only try one combination per second? It's going to take you a while to get through that dictionary. How determined are you ;-) Our product has a brute force attacker in it, and for some protocols, we have to wait a few seconds

RE: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-21 Thread Daevid Vincent
I like this idea of longer sleeps for each fail in theory, but it becomes moot if you only allow 3 failed attempts. -Original Message- From: Tim Van Wassenhove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-21 Thread Shah
Well, everyone is in big discussion about this, so i figure i'll toss in my worthless 2 cents. Say your users have a password of like 8 characters, Brutus (used for brute forcing) will tell someone trying to gain access that they'll have better luck asking the person. So the only real threat

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread Ignatius Reilly
sleep( nb of seconds ) ; _ - Original Message - From: ..: GamCo :.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:44 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ? Hi all, I would like to add a line of code in PHP that will execute a wait

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread ..: GamCo :..
hhhmmm... ok, i added the sleep() function in my page. what i'm basically doing is :- i have a .php page where people log-in from. from there i send the form to another .php page that actually checks the login and registers a session with the username and password as session variables. then on

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread Jason Wong
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 16:56, ..: GamCo :.. wrote: ok, i added the sleep() function in my page. what i'm basically doing is :- i have a .php page where people log-in from. from there i send the form to another .php page that actually checks the login and registers a session with the

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread John W. Holmes
..: GamCo :.. wrote: ok, i added the sleep() function in my page. what i'm basically doing is :- i have a .php page where people log-in from. from there i send the form to another .php page that actually checks the login and registers a session with the username and password as session variables.

RE: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:10 AM To: ..: GamCo :.. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ? ..: GamCo :.. wrote: ok, i added the sleep() function in my page. what i'm basically doing is :- i have a .php page where people log

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread John W. Holmes
Daevid Vincent wrote: Similarly, I could adjust my brute force attack to sleep() a pre-determined amount of time too ;-) Uhmmm.. how effective is a brute force attack where you can only try one combination per second? It's going to take you a while to get through that dictionary. The whole

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread Ignatius Reilly
PROTECTED]; 'John W. Holmes' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:47 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ? Similarly, I could adjust my brute force attack to sleep() a pre-determined amount of time too ;-) The whole 'sleep()' idea just seems silly. I agree with Jason. Just validate

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread Tim Van Wassenhove
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John W. Holmes wrote: Daevid Vincent wrote: Similarly, I could adjust my brute force attack to sleep() a pre-determined amount of time too ;-) Uhmmm.. how effective is a brute force attack where you can only try one combination per second? It's going to take

Re: [PHP-DB] Wait Statement... ?

2004-07-20 Thread John W. Holmes
Tim Van Wassenhove wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John W. Holmes wrote: Daevid Vincent wrote: Similarly, I could adjust my brute force attack to sleep() a pre-determined amount of time too ;-) Uhmmm.. how effective is a brute force attack where you can only try one combination per second?