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LionC / express-basic-auth

Plug & play basic auth middleware for express
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Backoff retry algorithm #61

Closed LuisMayo closed 9 months ago

LuisMayo commented 9 months ago

To avoid bad actors abusing the auth and trying to brute-force their way in, a back-off algorithm based on IPs would be nice to have

LionC commented 9 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion!

I think this should be the concern of a different middleware to put in front of this one, and I think there are already some options to do that. Closing as out of scope for now.