#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 Jacob Walls):
Ah, I think I see what you may have been asking. Let's say there are four
calls to `make_password("")`. I'm suggesting that there should be four
calls to a helper that manages that instead, since calling
`make_password("")` in the right conditions is tricky to get right.
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