Baffle thy enemy: The case for Honey Encryption
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 12:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Database breaches are making today's headlines, revealing events where thieves scoff up millions of passwords. Security experts meanwhile think about, talk about and work towards fighting against such crimes. A fresh twist in the security arsenal might be to simply baffle criminals by unleashing a flood of data that appears real but is fake. "Honey Encryption" is an approach being proposed to protect sensitive data. You beat attackers by making it difficult to figure out if the password or encryption key they are trying to steal is correct or incorrect.