Timeline for Can I slow down a brute force attack by encoding password input data?
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| Apr 22, 2017 at 12:19 | comment | added | The-Vinh VO | It's true that it doesn't slow down attacker's tool, but as you said, the attacker may eventually generate another version of his dictionaries (which take his time a bit), or he/she would spend more time for gathering information of the login form before attacking. I think for a true pentester, it changes nothing but for copy-paste kids, it would help... +1 for @Arminius for the proof of work. I think his answer is accepted. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 18:26 | history | edited | John Wu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2017 at 18:20 | history | answered | John Wu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |