'Honey' is the traditional term used to indicate a 'decoy' in computing. Two researchers have now used the epithet to describe their process of hiding a true key within a large number of false keys, making brute forcing stolen databases considerably more tricky.


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'Honey' is the traditional term used to indicate a 'decoy' in computing. Two researchers have now used the epithet to describe their process of hiding a true key within a large number of false keys, making brute forcing stolen databases considerably more tricky.
Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:28:00 GMT
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/honey-encryption-joins-honeywords-and-honeypots/

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