Honeywords: making password-cracking detectable
We propose a simple method for improving the security of hashed passwords: the maintenance of additional ``honeywords'' (false passwords) associated with each user's account. An adversary who steals a file of hashed passwords and inverts the hash function cannot tell if he has found t...
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| Language: | English |
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
2014-10-08T14:42:37Z.
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