Title: Compared to HTTP Basic Auth
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Compared to HTTP Basic Auth

 *  Resolved [fuoco20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fuoco20/)
 * (@fuoco20)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compared-to-http-basic-auth/)
 * BruteProtect seems really terrific, but I’m not sure what advantage it provides
   compared to password protecting wp-login.php through .htaccess, which is what
   I’ve been doing for quite some time.
    The main thing I’m interested in is reducing
   the resources that all those brute force attempts aware costing, and for that
   the basic auth approach is quite efficient. Can BruteProtect do the same and 
   maybe more, or does it stand in a disadvantage because it still runs php and/
   or WordPress for each connection?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bruteprotect/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bruteprotect/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Rocco Tripaldi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roccotripaldi/)
 * (@roccotripaldi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compared-to-http-basic-auth/#post-5893320)
 * Hello Fuoco,
 * Protecting your WordPress via .htaccess is an excellent solution. If you are 
   happy with that, then you do not need to use BruteProtect.
 * The cool thing about BruteProtect is that it uses data from the entire WordPress
   community to block known bad actors. The more people that use it, the stronger
   it gets!
 * If you do decide to use our product, you should know that the latest version 
   was added to Jetpack version 3.4. Please use that version.
 * Thanks

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