Secure Novel Honey Words Generation Approach to Reduce the Storage Overhead

Abstract: Now days, password has a lot of security problem that has a ected millions of users and many companies across globe. Password is generally stored in en-crypted format. If a password is stolen by us-ing the password cracking techniques and de-cryption techniques, it is easy to understand and capture password protected data using decrypted passwords. To troubleshoot, we create the honeyword password, i.e. a false password by using a at honeyword genera-tion method. When unauthorized user tries to login using honeyword, it will generate alarm to system administrator. Once admin-istrator received alert, it will generate false data and make unauthorized user confused.

Keywords: Honeywords, Honeypot, Lo-gin, OTP, Authentication, Password Cracking, Decoy Documents.