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You can easily leak whether someone has an account on your website -- if I know their email address and input it, does it basically tell me? This limits your ab
by zbuf 10y ago
You can easily leak whether someone has an account on your website -- if I know their email address and input it, does it basically tell me? This limits your ability to reasonably error if the email address inputted is wrong.
Still, a lot of "forgot password" forms seem to be subject to this, too.
Also, you can only have one account per-email -- a disadvantage for some types of service, but admittedly probably a good thing for most.