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Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles

Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles

Posted May 15, 2013 14:14 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (guest, #307)
In reply to: Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles by apoelstra
Parent article: Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles

Apple does the right thing with respect to this: throttle exponentially against the number of tries. 10s, 30s, 1.5min, 4.5min, 13.5min, 40.5min and so on.

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Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles

Posted May 16, 2013 13:21 UTC (Thu) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link]

No, not at all. It is quite irritating when you leave your ipad around to see that someone had fun in locking it for almost 15'.

Really, this does not make any sense. To avoid brute force attacks a few seconds are more than enough: 100000 trials * 36 sec = 3600000 sec = 3600h = half a year > average time between recommended password changes.


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