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Biometrics has arisen as an autonomous and trustworthy alternative to old technologies that relied on PINs or passwords, in which a subject's behavioural or physiological traits allow for his identification. One benefit of biometric characteristics is that they cannot be misplaced or forgotten. Although BTP technologies are used to create the biometric references for the registered subjects, it is still possible to impersonate a specific subject using a template obtained from a database without the BTP scheme realising it. The notion behind adding artificial templates to the system to thwart these attacks comes from the Honey words strategy. For the purpose of safeguarding conventional passwords when multiple password hashes are kept for each subject: the hash for hashes for the actual password as well as for imitation or honeypot words. More recently, a framework known as Honey Templates for the use of the honey words concept in biometric authentication systems was proposed, and a specific case study on face verification based on Eigen faces was applied on a small database, demonstrating its effectiveness in terms of both irreversibility and recognition performance.