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Implement Automated Rate Limiting and DDoS Protection #983

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Implement Automated Rate Limiting and DDoS Protection

Priority: High
Estimated Time: 2 hours

Description

The API has no protection against DoS attacks. An attacker could spam requests and exhaust resources.

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  • Implement token-bucket rate limiter (per-IP: 100 req/min, per-API-key: 1000 req/min)
  • Add WAF rules to detect and block patterns: rapid repeated requests, request size anomalies
  • Return 429 Too Many Requests on limit exceeded
  • Add rate limit status headers to responses
  • Add tests for rate limiting and bypass prevention

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