honeyword
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Noun[edit]
honeyword (plural honeywords)
- (computing) An incorrect password published as part of a honeypot, so that any user attempting to log in with the password may be assumed to be an attacker.
- 2015, Nilesh Chakraborty, Samrat Mondal, “A New Storage Optimized Honeyword Generation Approach for Enhancing Security and Usability”, in arXiv[1]:
- In this paper we have proposed a new honeyword generation approach, identified as Paired Distance Protocol (PDP) which overcomes almost all the drawbacks of previously proposed honeyword generation approaches.