Explanation missing if not even misleading
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This is the plugins description:
WP Login Delay is a plugin that adds a one second delay when logging into the system in order to slow down any brute-force attack on your website.
The first part is clear to me so far:
WP Login Delay is a plugin that adds a one second delay when logging into the system
But the second part needs explanation. You write:
in order to slow down any brute-force attack on your website.
The relationship between adding a one second delay per a single request while having a multi-request brute-force attackis not clear to me.
In the end this delays the whole brute-force attack for exactly a single second which is so short that I’d say this is not slowing it down at all.
Please fix the descrption, perhaps leave the brute-force attack completely out there? This gives a far more correct description then:
WP Login Delay is a plugin that adds a one second delay when logging into the system. Nothing more and nothing less.
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