Comment by 3form
3 months ago
That's a very uncommon understanding of brute force, to be honest. Generally I see the term applied to cases where there's next to no prior knowledge, just enumeration.
3 months ago
That's a very uncommon understanding of brute force, to be honest. Generally I see the term applied to cases where there's next to no prior knowledge, just enumeration.
Well, I'd have picked a different word in this context. I'm just explaining why attestation fixes the problem described by the OP as seen in modern contexts and rate limiting doesn't.