Agreed

Further to that, I would also suggest that you block or slow down the IP address, after a certain number of failed login attempts from the same address, as otherwise, a cracker could try the same password with a long list of Different usernames, in order to try to break in that way.

If I where you, I would impose a 1 second delay between login attempts for the same username or from the same IP address block, and after 3 failed attempts, I would double the delay for each subsequent failed attempt up to a maximum of around 5 minutes.

I don't think there is anything to be gained from using AJAX or suchlike to check usernames & passwords in real-time. As roboticus said, that would just make cracker's job easier, and also give them a way to overload your server and inflict a denial of service attack. A simple form submit with both a username and password on it should be sufficient.

One thing you might consider, is to use JavaScript on the client to hash the user supplied password with a random salt string supplied by the server, so that if the password submission form is intercepted over an insecure WiFi or suchlike, a cracker will not be able to re-use it later.

In reply to Re^2: real time server side validation by chrestomanci
in thread real time server side validation by yakoval

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