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Old 12-24-2005, 05:51 PM  
ACiD
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Originally Posted by _panic_
if you want to get really, really serious about testing it, there might well be subtle time differences between a valid and invalid user account.

it might be nice to see if you can detect invalid accounts by the difference in time it takes to display a return code when providing a valid vs invalid user. but then again the effect might be subtle and not detectable above the noise.
Well im connecting to my server on the same machine it runs on and i also have a powerful machine so detecting little lags like that for me would probably be a futile activity.

But i did try it several times back and forth supplying different usernames and passwords and i couldn't see a difference.
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