Re: brute force attacking the password - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: brute force attacking the password
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Msg-id 20050420152044.GB512@wolff.to
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In response to Re: brute force attacking the password  (Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@khleuven.be>)
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Re: brute force attacking the password
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 22:54:32 +0200,
  Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@khleuven.be> wrote:
>
> not an easy problem: it always seems to end up in DoS vs Brute Force Cracking.
> So the only good and simple solution i can think of: use the best possible
> password encrytion (or sufficient, a statistically zero chance when trying as
> much connections -to brute force crack the password- as possible for a
> significant amount of time.)

Maybe you can use client side certificates. Those will be from a large
enough space that guessing shouldn't be a problem. You should be able to
make that work with PAM.

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