International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 05 Issue: 04 | Apr-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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Security Enhancements by achieving flatness in Honeyword for web
user passwords
Rohini Wankhade
1
, Vishal Ubale
2
, Shivam Sharma
3
, Shilpa Gite
4
1,2,3,4
Department of Computer, Indira College of Engineering and Management, Pune, India.
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Abstract - In recent years, all the activities of the countries
over the world is carried out Digitally and all the information
or data is shared over the network increasing the speed and
efficiency of data, but this transformation of data over the
digital network has threat of security i.e loosing the data of
the users by the third party unauthorized persons or
attackers, cyber crime has taking consistent efforts to
improve the security over the network as all the scams now a
days are carried digitally as the data transformation includes
money transfer, online shopping, confidential data, social
feeds, etc. As to maintain the security a unique identification
value or term called password is given to every user and is
asked to keep it secret, but the attacker still steals the
password using various techniques so to avoid these threat
we are using Honeywords which will be generated by existing
user password and if the attackers enter the password from
the honeypot alarm is raised over administrator side, also we
maintaining the IP and location tracking of the user and
proposing a new technique called video click based captcha
scheme to authenticate between humans and robots/bots
overcoming the problems of graphical password scheme
captcha. Thus, this whole architecture protects and secures
the data and application over the online network reducing
the threats against the unauthorized users.
Keywords: Authentication, Video Click based Captcha,
Honeywords, Tracking, Decoy, Password
1. INTRODUCTION
In recent years the whole world has stored to the Internet
world for the latest gadgets which increases the speed and
efficiency of the task or any specific work, when we talk
about internet world i.e www(world wide web) Information
security plays an vital any very important role as it is used
to secure and protect the information over the network
against the fake users and third party attackers and has
many authentication methods such as passwords, patterns,
PIN numbers, captcha, etc. The most effective
authentication method carried by every system is Password
which is very secured and easy for humans to understand
and remember, hence security of password is an important
aspect when comes to digital network, a password is unique
for every user and is a secret key through which user logins
any specific system and gain access to that system for
carrying out further operations online(eg: online payment)
the application development should also maintain the user
password in hash codes or in encrypted format in
database using various encryption algorithms increasing
the security of the password. In recent years many
unauthorized password gains are carried out by the
attackers or hackers which has leaded access to the
confidential as well as sensitive data over the network,
as password protects the user from keeping the data safe
and strain the authorization limits, we must form the
new techniques to make the password more strong and
protective as it will be difficult for the hackers to crack it,
many companies like yahoo, e-bay, LinkedIn as faced the
passwords attacks and the users passwords were
revealed. As now a days peoples have fully switched to
the Digital network to carry public as well as private
activities like online payments, shopping, bank
transactions, etc so to avoid the frauds over the internet
cyber crime has introduced many techniques to manage
or to provide the security from the third party users,
attackers and machine robots, hence to avoid these all
serious issues we are coming with the new password
securing technique called honeywords generation from
existing passwords and maintaining the tracks of the
user which includes the internet protocol address and
location attributes as Country, state, city and to provide
security against the Machine bots we are using Video
click based captcha authentication. This newly upcoming
technique will be robust and cost effective and it will
overcome all common attacks including OCR bot attacks
which every existing Captcha has failed to achieve.
When comes to Honeywords technique to prevent the
passwords, there are two issues that should be
considered to overcome these security problems: First,
passwords must be protected by taking appropriate
precautions and storing with their hash values computed
through salting or some other complex mechanisms.
Hence, for an adversary it must be hard to invert hashes
to acquire plaintext passwords, Honeypot is one of the
methods to identify occurrence of a password database
breach, In this approach, the administrator purposely
creates deceit user accounts to lure adversaries and
detects a password disclosure, if any one of the honeypot
passwords get used.
Use of decoys for building theft-resistant and the fake
password sets are stored with the real user password set
to conceal the real passwords, thereby forcing an
adversary to carry out a considerable amount of online
work before getting the correct information. Recently,
Juels and Rivest have presented the honeyword
mechanism to detect an adversary who attempts to login
with cracked passwords. Basically, for each username a
set of sweet-words is constructed such that only one
element is the correct password and the others are
honeywords, Hence when an adversary tries to enter