@misc{JR13, author = { Ari Juels and Ronald L. Rivest }, title = { Honeywords: Making Password-Cracking Detectable }, date = { 2013-05-02 }, OPTyear = { 2013 }, OPTmonth = { May 2, }, urla = { Honeywords-Project-Page }, note = { Unpublished draft. }, asbtract = { We suggest 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 the password or a honeyword. The attempted use of a honeyword for login sets off an alarm. An auxiliary server (the honeychecker) can distinguish the user password from honeywords for the login routine, and will set off an alarm if a honeyword is submitted. }, }