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Timing logic

Actually, putting timers on certain actions could solve a lot of security problems. For example, if a system only allows a login attempt against a specific account every 3 seconds, the time required to break a password goes from something on the order of hours to decades.

Similarly, as rocky1 pointed out, if a DNS server will only send, say, 10 responses a second to a particular address, then it doesn't matter if anonymous recursion is turned on or not. Of course, it would probably be better if the receiving system could control the 'valve'.

Posted by: rjhenn_z   Posted on: 03/24/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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