pf suggestions for paced attack

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Mon May 3 16:48:20 UTC 2010


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM, John <john at starfire.mn.org> wrote:

> Hi, Matthew.  Indeed, yes, you may not recall, but my rules are
> based on a set that I originally got from you, and I do, in fact,
> have a white list, which I should have mentioned, but some of my
> users are "road warriors" and could be coming from virtually anywhere.
> You're right, though - it's time to look into alternatives to
> password-based authenticaion.  I think I've taken password-based
> protection and rate adaptive rules to their logical limit.
>
>
What's wrong with denyhosts?  Key-based authentication has it's own set
pitfalls.  I'm far more likely to lose my usb stick than my password.  I
imagine there are other like me.

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Adam Vande More


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