honeyword

English

Etymology

From honey +‎ word.

Noun

honeyword (plural honeywords)

1. (computing) 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.
   • 2015, Nilesh Chakraborty, Samrat Mondal, “A New Storage Optimized Honeyword Generation Approach for Enhancing Security and Usability”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     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.