Targeted Honeyword Generation with Language Models. (arXiv:2208.06946v2 [cs.AI] UPDATED)

Honeywords are fictitious passwords inserted into databases in order to
identify password breaches. The major difficulty is how to produce honeywords
that are difficult to distinguish from real passwords. Although the generation
of honeywords has been widely investigated in the past, the majority of
existing research assumes attackers have no knowledge of the users. These
honeyword generating techniques (HGTs) may utterly fail if attackers exploit
users' personally identifiable information (PII) and the real passwords include
users' PII. In this paper, …

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