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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorFrancois-Dominique Gilles Armingaud
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A stealth system and method that allows a resource to be practically invulnerable to fast online brute-force attacks is disclosed. The method for controlling access to a computer resource consists in performing a user authentication procedure upon receiving a request from a user to access the computer resource. As part of the user authentication procedure, a password verification procedure is performed which comprises the steps of requesting a password from the user and comparing the entered password with an expected valid one. The next steps are to compute the number of ungranted access for the user during a predefined time interval N if the password matches the expected one and to grant access to the user only if the computed number is lower than a predetermined number K of authorized requests. Otherwise, if either the password does not match the expected one or the number of unsuccessful attempts to log is higher than the predetermined number, the access is denied to the user and a time stamp of the ungranted access is stored.
A method for controlling access to a computer resource upon receiving a current request from a user to access the resource, comprising the steps of:
A system for controlling access to a computer resource upon receiving a current request from a user to access the resource, comprising:
A computer-readable medium comprising instructions for carrying out the steps of a method for controlling access to a computer resource upon receiving a current request from a user to access the resource, the method steps comprising:
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