Honeyword

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From honey + word.

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