#36901: Centralize mitigations against timing attacks targeting user enumeration
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Reporter: Jacob Walls | Owner: Afenomamy
Type: | Status: assigned
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: contrib.auth | Version: dev
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Tim Schilling):
@Jacob Walls, can you clarify what you mean by "reduce the number of calls
to set_password("")" please? Is it to remove the calls because that is a
hack and we should have a clearer method or to reduce the amount of times
the hashing mechanism is run?
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