<div dir="ltr">Uh, finally caught up on thread, my questions got answered to my satisfaction based on the later part of the thread.<div>I didnt get stats, but no longer care.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:21 PM Texx <<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I had been wondering the same thing but hadnt gotten around to asking yet.<div><br></div><div>An interesting question would be how many passwords are broken by iteration, and how many from password breaches?</div><div>Even a dictionary attack would take a while if the account times out after every 5 tries. </div><div><br></div><div>I know there are some stats out there on the number of breaches.</div><div>I dont know if there are stats on iterative attacks.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:15 PM <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a> <<a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Now a different question. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Who
can actually try a large number of logins? In my experience just
trying to get into my own account, it takes a second to get a response
that I messed up. That limits my attempts to not very many in an hour.
Also, If I mess up more than 4 or 6 times in a row, I get locked out
and have to phone the bank for assistance.</div><div id="gmail-m_-8769012560419527085gmail-m_5976429905171487172ydpa9864df6yahoo_quoted_7501015789"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div><div id="gmail-m_-8769012560419527085gmail-m_5976429905171487172ydpa9864df6yiv5856768616"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div>Me thinks there is a different sort of security hole that would allow an unlimited number of tries in a short time.<br></div> <br></div></div></div></div>
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