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What's with the 45 second delay after you insert your password or user name wrong more than 2 times?

It's a little over the top.  >:( It's just a forum. Why should anyone care about security so much? Maybe this extra security should be an option?


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That actually is to prevent spam and spammers.

They also care about security a lot because many financial transactions happen here. If a trusted account was to be compromised, then the attacker could use that account to scam people and steal a lot of money.

it could prevent users using bots to spam log in some accounts using different password to try hacking. 45seconds isn't much of a problem mate, just enter your log in credentials correctly

Two points:

1- 45 seconds isn't that much to talk about

2- Security is loved always  ::)

Its so you can not bruteforce a password.  If there was no timer one "bad guy" might sit there and just go through ton's of attempts.

It's WELL worth the wait.  I would not mind if they make it longer and add 2 factor auth.   I like secure.

There's no need for human to do brute forcing nowadays. Someone could easily create a bot that can brute force Bitcointalk 24/7.

Bro this forum needs to be as secure as possible. There are some great guys here, some really trustworthy, helpful posters who will do anything for you but there an equal number of scum bags, hackers, thieves, low lives etc.

The problem is that bad people here can be very dangerous, there are some very tech savvy, intelligent people here.

Don't knock anything that helps provide security here, I fully agree with anything the mods do to make this place safer.

TBH, 45 seconds feels a bit much for stopping a bruteforce attack.
5 seconds maybe sounds more reasonable, and even lesser would work. Bruteforce attacks work only when the attacker has the hash.

Let's assume a 6 character lower case only password.
There are (26^6) combinations, and it will take (26^6)*45 seconds to check them all
That's 440 years. Changing it to 5 seconds will reduce it to around 49 years.
Something stronger, like 8 characters (still less), upper and lower case and numbers will take millions of years.

So the question is still, why?

And thats why there is a 45 sec delay, even if you are going to use a bot you still wont be able to bypass the 45 second waiting time so you would only have 1 guess per 45 seconds, unless you can somehow manage to bypass it by using tor or something like that

why not? 45 seconds are nothing as long as they're not up to anything bad. it may even discourage hackers from trying to brute-force an account.

It's bitcointalk forum and not any other forum . Accounts here have a value depends ont he Rank because they can enroll on signature compaigns and get paid and accounts can even have sensitive informations on them .
So for what comes to the 45 seconds if we are speaking about the Login form then it's most likely to prevent Cracking because cracking became easy those days and people become more and more familliar with it using Sentry MBA and other cracking programs and maybe also for not having so much load , for what comes to posting then this dissapear with time and with your Activity rising and it's for preventing spam from new accounts .

I do not think the 45 seconds of delay between the login it is not due the value of accounts, but only for a security reason. If someone will gain (easily) the access of a community trusted account then he can do a lot of damage.

people are never satisfied. if this forum is trying to make sure everything is secure, people complain that it is over the top. if the forum gets hacked, people then complain about the forum lacking security. be happy that the forum is as it is.

It's there for a reason, it isn't that much of a hassle to wait 45 seconds. So just wait it out and have fun.