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honeyword en · NOUN

Etymology

From honey + word.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • 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. 2015, Nilesh Chakraborty, Samrat Mondal, “A New Storage Optimized Honeyword Generation Approach for Enhancing Security and Usability”, in arXiv:

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