HONEYWORD TO DETECT UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS

Abstract

The new developments in the field of information technology offered the people enjoyment, comforts and convenience, but there are many security related problems. One of them is password file. Password files have got a lot of security problem that has affected millions of users as well as many companies. Password file is generally stored in encrypted format, if a password file is hacked or theft by using the password cracking techniques and decryption technique it is easy to capture or find most of the plaintext and encrypt passwords. For troubleshoot this here we produce the honey word password, i.e. a False password using a perfectly flat honey word generation method, and try to attract illegal or unauthorized user. Hence that time we find the unauthorized user. Here we also protect the original data from unauthorized user. As mentioned above, in this system we have used Honey words also called as Sweet Password Security Strategy