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Comment by 1718627440

6 months ago

> There's no reason for it

The reason is to add a delay when bruteforcing passwords.

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hananova  6 months ago

Bruteforcing is only really done with the password hashes in hand. Attacks on live systems are done with credential stuffing.

timhh  6 months ago

Definitely not for local password authentication, and I'm dubious it helps for ssh either. See my other comment.

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