sdelements/django-security — Issue #6: Throttling cache keys are too long.
Author: funkaoshi
Created: 2012-01-11 14:54:49+00:00
State: open

The keys you can supply to memcache have a maximum length of 255 characters. This makes them too short to store a username and IP address. (The username can be 255 characters itself.) I'm not sure what the best way to get around this is. We could store a (truncated) hash of the username, perhaps?