Hello Alessandro Vesely,

Am 2011-02-16 12:20:00, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> Hi :-)

> Thus an 87382-node botnet can break an average password with 18 bits
> of entropy* by the end of the day, with three attempts from each IP.

> Many times?  If "many" is 35 times per day for 20 years, that makes
> for about 255675 attempts: barely enough to break that 18-bit entropy
> password, let alone a strong one.  OTOH, a million-node botnet could
> easily afford a few thousands attempts per day, from different IP
> addresses, without being noticed.  It would crack most passwords in a
> few months.

Hehe, in 2009 (some of my servers are in Khoy/Iran) I have gotten massiv
hack attempts but my 7600 has blocked the crap successfuly.

Unfortunately Linux can not do that.

And I had millions of hack attempts  and  DoS  attacks...  (someone  had
claimed I am working for the iranian government and tried to  pull  down
my internet service with 8 Courier- and 5 Web-Servers for 18k DSL users)

I think, it depends on your configuration.

> IMHO, counting the global number of failures can counter that.  A
> smart system could even estimate the entropy of a cleartext password
> and compute N above as a safe fraction of the required number of
> attempts, in order to avoid being unduly intrusive.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack

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