• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.2289-2296
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• 2016

The password rules to be applied for the user account creation are often different by websites. Thus we often forget the password to sign in website and it creates waste of time for frequent password reset. In order to solve this problem we propose a new authentication method in this paper. When user forget the password to sign in, the existing methods require a password reset step but our proposed method provides new sign in scheme through the additional authentication step with base password and personal information registered at the member sign up stage. From the result of performance comparison the proposed method is considered to be more efficient than others because it provides not only an equivalent level of security with others but also requires only a half of the number of transactions and the time required for password reset step.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.211-220
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• 2003

본 논문은 신뢰 할 수 없는 네트워크를 통해서도 사용자를 인증하거나 키를 교환하는 것에 적합한 패스워드 인증 프로토콜을 제안한다. 기본 아이디어는 패스워드 검증정보의 램덤성(randomness)을 증가시키기 위하여, 패스워드를 분할한 후 이에 대한 각 패스워드 지식을 확대(amplification)하는 구조로 설계된다. 또한 서버측 파일을 암호화하여 보관함으로써 서버 파일 타협 공격에 강인하도록 구성하였다. 더불어 검증정보 및 서버의 암호화키가 다수의 서버들에게 분산되도록 설계된 방식을 제안한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.231-238
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• 2014

Graphical passwords using images have been developed to solve problems in text based password recognition. The basic recognition process scheme of graphical passwords is clicking certain points on the screen image in correct order. In this pre-developed method of graphical passwords the recognition will fail if the precise positions are not clicked. A new graphical password system called PassPositions is introduced in this paper. PassPositions is a new graphical password scheme which is using relative positions never used earlier graphical password schemes. PassPositions is a graphical password scheme based on universal design that everybody can use conveniently without regarding their physical conditions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.23-36
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• 2004

This paper presents a password based authentication and key exchange protocol which can be used for both authenticating users and exchanging session keys for a subsequent secure communication over an untrusted network. Our idea is to increase a randomness of the password verification data, i.e., we split the password, and then amplify the split passwords in the high entropy-structured password verification data. And in order to prevent the verifier-compromised attack, we construct our system such that the password verification data is encrypted with the verifier's key and the private key of verifier used to encrypt it is stored in a secure place like a smart cards. Also we propose the distributed password authentication scheme utilizing many authentication servers in order to prevent the server-compromised attack occurred when only one server is used. Furthermore, the security analysis on the proposed protocol has been presented as a conclusion.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.249-256
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• 2020

The session initiation protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol, which is used to controlling communication session creation, manage and finish over Internet protocol. Based on it, we can implement various services like voice based electronic commerce or instant messaging. Recently, Qiu et al. proposed an enhanced password authentication scheme for SIP. However, this paper withdraws that Qiu et al.'s scheme is weak against the off-line password guessing attack and has denial of service problem. Addition to this, we propose an improved password authentication scheme as a remedy scheme of Qiu et al.'s scheme. For this, the proposed scheme does not use server's verifier and is based on elliptic curve cryptography. Security validation is provided based on a formal validation tool ProVerif. Security analysis shows that the improved authentication scheme is strong against various attacks over SIP.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.177-182
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• 2011

This paper introduces a possibility for attackers to acquire the keyboard scan codes through using the RESEND command provided by the keyboard hardware itself, based on the PS/2 interface that is a dominant interface for input devices. Accordingly, a keyboard sniffing program using the introduced vulnerability is implemented to prove the severeness of the vulnerability, which shows that user passwords can be easily exposed. As one of the intrinsic vulnerabilities found on the existing platforms, for which there were little considerations on the security problems when they were designed, it is required to consider a hardware approach to countermeasure the introduced vulnerability.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.395-398
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• 2014

데스크톱 애플리케이션은 제품 활성화를 위해 제품번호나 라이선스 키, 아이디-패스워드를 이용한 인증을 활용한다. 그러나 크랙, 패치, 인증서버 우회로 인한 불법 복제 프로그램 사용 및 사용자 권한 도용이 끊이질 않고 있다. 본 논문에서는 국내외 소프트웨어 품질 향상과 정품 소프트웨어 사용 및 안전한 인증을 위해 도입해야할 기본적인 보안 요구사항을 연구하고 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.103-112
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• 2004

This paper suggests the way to realize smart card security system by using handwritten signature instead of a password which is traditionally used for user authentication. Because of the familiarity of signature we don't need to try to remember the password and signature is difficult to be used by guess or illegal forced situation. The feature data of handwritten signature is large, so we designed COS which is consist of special commands for processing user's handwritten signature data, user authentication, and basic commands based on ISO 7816-3. Also protocol among user, smart card terminal and DB server is designed. In registration process, the feature data of user signature is saved in both a DB server and a smart card. User authentication is processed by comparing the user signature and the saved feature data in a smart card and in a DB server. And the authentication result and hash value of signature data in DB server are transferred to smart card. During this process the authentication between DB server and user is finished. The proposed security system has more higher level of security in user authentication of smart card and it will Provide safer and more convenient security services.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2003

인터넷상에서 많은 상거래 및 개인 정보들이 전송되고 있다. 그러나 이런 정보들은 많은 위협에 노출되어 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해서 전자서명, 컨텐츠 암호 등 많은 방법들이 제안되고 있지만, 이런 기법들을 이용하기 위해서는 키의 생성, 분배, 전송을 위한 처리 모듈이 기본적으로 필요하다. 이런 모듈 중 전송 및 분배 시에 제3자를 이를 가로채어서 유용하는 문제점이 발생된다. 이에 본 연구는 기존의 키 교환 알고리즘인 Diffie-Hellman(DH)에 공개키 암호화 방법과 패스워드 방법을 추가하여 기존의 키 교환에서 발생된 문제점들에 대해서 해결 하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.3548-3557
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• 2010

Security enhancement technologies are required to preventing phishing and pharming attacks on Internet banking. One-time password(OTP) should be used with certificate for enhancing user authentication and security performance. However, existing OTP technique is weak on MITM(Man-In-The-Middle) attack and synchnonization should be provided on OTP system. Therefore, more advanced mechanism such as combining biometic data with OTP can be suggested to enhancing security on authentication system. In this paper, we designed and implemented a multifactor authentication system using one-time biometric template to generate unique authentication data after adapting biometric transform on each user's biometric data.