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honeywords

honeywords is the plural of honeyword.

Meaning of honeyword

Noun

honeyword (plural honeywords)

  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

Questions about honeywords

What is honeywords the plural of?
Honeywords is the plural of honeyword.

Words near honeywords in the dictionary

  1. Honeywell
  2. Honeywells
  3. Honeywood
  4. Honeywoods
  5. honeyword
  6. honeywords
  7. honeywort
  8. honeyworts
  9. honfidence
  10. honfident
  11. hong

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