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Hi, we decided to simplify the login page at Mondizen. Instead of two boxes - one for account creation and one for login we present one box with an email input, then if the user exists we show a password box otherwise go to an account creation page. This should seem simpler for the customer. Feedback welcome.

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It's a good idea, but you do realise that a hacker can now determine when they have an email address right, so they can just brute force attack the password? Before, they couldn't be sure whether it was the email address or password that was wrong.

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Yes this could be a problem. In Prestashop if you choose to create a new account on the login page and the email already exists then you get an error message saying the email already exists, so the information is available. Alot of websites have a "forgot my password" form that provides the same information. It would be possible to add a captcha but personally I don't like these. Prestashop already has a sleep call in the password verification but I don't see that this stops a brute force attack. Logging failed login attempts is what we do at the moment.

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