Creating secure and dependable honey words to increase password security.

Abstract

Criminals have steadily used the internet to study, support, and perpetrate illegal activity in last few decades. Obtaining pertinent information about criminals in a timely manner is one of the substantial important ways that enforcement of the law can combat this expanding trend. The challenge gaining access to any device a criminal uses that are required authentication through the internet is a major impediment to this password. When generating passwords, password guessing techniques usually take into account typical user activity as well in addition to the password policy in place. When applied to a large/average population, such strategies may have a moderate success rate. When focusing on a single goal, however, they often fail – exceptionally when the latter is an educated consumer taking precautions as an agonizing criminal would. Law enforcement is constantly using open gather intelligence sources valuable information about a criminal, but nothing is being done to incorporate this data into password cracking in an automated way. The aim of this design is to look at the techniques that allow for the gathering of critical information about a suspect and to figure out how to utilize that Password guessing techniques contain information.