Thursday, January 30, 2014

Honey Encryption joins Honeywords and Honeypots in the Security Lexicon

'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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