Strengthening password security through honeyword and Honeyencryption technique
Vasundhara R. Pagar, Rohini G. Pise · 2017 International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICEI) · 2017
In digital era people's livelihood is completely depend on internet due to speedy growth of it. Web services are widely used by business, government, individuals. Communication with the different web services is occurring through authentication i.e. user name and password. But web services are becoming susceptible due to effortless hacking of website through weak password. Password is vital key to get authorization but hackers are much successful in password cracking due to the weak password selected by user. To strengthen the password storage, proposed system uses Honeyword technique along with Honeyencryption. Honeywords are bogus passwords which are stored with original password to lure the attacker. In case attacker got the password file but he cannot guest which is the original password. Alarm is generated to the legitimate user immediately if attacker is trying to access the account either one of the Honeyword or wrong password. For encryption of password Honeyencryption technique is applied which provides more security to password. Every attempt of decryption of password gives incorrect or false plaintext which confuses the attacker with original password. The purpose of this study is secure online communication by providing strong password security and avoids misuse of user financial and personal data by attacker.