Island: Add a small throttle to shorten the OTP #4188
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What does this PR do?
Part of #4187
Calculations
7 chars (alphanumeric + 3 special characters) gives total of 4,764,996,883,946 combinations (based on this
The current throttle is 0.001, so the result is that you're able to check 120 000 passwords per 2 minutes.
This means that you chance of guessing the OTP is 1 in 39,708,307. In practice it's much higher if you account for network latency. I think this is sufficient security for a problem whose real solution is NAC.
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