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honeywords: a standalone construct

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honeywords1 CONSTRUCTHoneywordsJUELS · COMPUTER SECURITY

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Computer security

storing several decoy passwords alongside each real one so that an attacker's login with a cracked decoy reveals that a password file was stolen.

In computer security, honeywords refers to storing several decoy passwords alongside each real one so that an attacker's login with a cracked decoy reveals that a password file was stolen. This meaning comes from Juels (2013) in Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security - CCS '13.[1]

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security3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

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  1. Juels, A., & Rivest, R. L. (2013). Honeywords: making password-cracking detectable. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security - CCS '13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2508859.2516671

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