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The generator shown will produce random variants on passwords it's fed, so it shouldn't be easy to filter them out. False alarms should be easy to avoid - stick
by takluyver 13y ago
The generator shown will produce random variants on passwords it's fed, so it shouldn't be easy to filter them out. False alarms should be easy to avoid - stick 100 honeypot passwords in the database, and set off the alarm if say, 10 of them are tried within a week. Obviously those numbers can be tweaked according to password strength, number of users, etc.
Edit: It's actually talking about a specific set of honeywords for each user. So when the password is chosen, you generate a set of honeywords that are quite different from that password, and can't be reached by mistake.