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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Juels, Ari, Rivest, Ronald L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90627
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7105-3690