Add brute-force protection with rate limiting on login

- Caffeine cache used to allow max 5 login attempts per minute.
- Login endpoint blocks IPs exceeding rate, returns 429 status.
- Failed attempts are reset after successful login or after 1 minute.

pom.xml

@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@
 					</excludes>
 				</configuration>
 
+				<dependency>
+					<groupId>com.github.ben-manes.caffeine</groupId>
+					<artifactId>caffeine</artifactId>
+					<version>3.1.8</version>
+				</dependency>
 
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>

src/main/java/com/skycrate/backend/skycrateBackend/controller/AuthController.java

@@ -24,12 +24,26 @@ public class AuthController {
     }
 
     @PostMapping("/login")
-    public ResponseEntity<?> login(@RequestBody LoginRequest request) {
+    public ResponseEntity<?> login(@RequestBody LoginRequest request, HttpServletRequest servletRequest) {
-        authManager.authenticate(new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(request.getEmail(), request.getPassword()));
+        String ip = servletRequest.getRemoteAddr(); // or use request.getEmail() as key
+
+        if (rateLimiterService.isBlocked(ip)) {
+            return ResponseEntity.status(429).body("Too many login attempts. Please try again later.");
+        }
+
+        try {
+            authManager.authenticate(
+                    new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(request.getEmail(), request.getPassword())
+            );
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            rateLimiterService.recordFailedAttempt(ip);
+            return ResponseEntity.status(401).body("Invalid credentials.");
+        }
 
         User user = userRepository.findByEmail(request.getEmail())
                 .orElseThrow(() -> new RuntimeException("User not found"));
 
+        rateLimiterService.resetAttempts(ip);
         String token = jwtService.generateToken(user);
         return ResponseEntity.ok().body(token);
     }

src/main/java/com/skycrate/backend/skycrateBackend/security/RateLimiterService.java

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package com.skycrate.backend.skycrateBackend.security;
+
+import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.Cache;
+import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.Caffeine;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+@Service
+public class RateLimiterService {
+
+    private final Cache<String, Integer> attemptsCache;
+
+    private static final int MAX_ATTEMPTS = 5;
+
+    public RateLimiterService() {
+        this.attemptsCache = Caffeine.newBuilder()
+                .expireAfterWrite(1, TimeUnit.MINUTES)
+                .build();
+    }
+
+    public boolean isBlocked(String key) {
+        Integer attempts = attemptsCache.getIfPresent(key);
+        return attempts != null && attempts >= MAX_ATTEMPTS;
+    }
+
+    public void recordFailedAttempt(String key) {
+        int attempts = attemptsCache.getIfPresent(key) == null ? 0 : attemptsCache.getIfPresent(key);
+        attemptsCache.put(key, attempts + 1);
+    }
+
+    public void resetAttempts(String key) {
+        attemptsCache.invalidate(key);
+    }
+}