• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.2009-2012
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 향후 네트워크 시장을 주도할 무선랜에서 암호화 기능과 인증 기능을 제공하기 위하여 제시된 보안 프로토콜인 WEP에 대하여 발견되는 취약점들을 지적하고 이에 대한 개선안을 제시하였다 또한, 제시한 개선안을 토대로 초기 값 재사용을 방지할 수 있는 초기 값 생성 시스템과 블록암호 CBC 모드를 이용하여 기밀성과 상호 인증 기능을 제공할 수 있는 새로운 무선랜 보안 모델을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1219-1230
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• 2012

Recently, lots of users are using wireless LAN providing authentication and confidentiality with security mechanism such as WEP, WPA. But, weakness of each security mechanism was discovered and attack methods that user's information was exposed or modified to the third parties with it and abused by them were suggested. In this paper, we analyzed architecture of security mechanisms in wireless LAN and performed PSK cracking attack and cookie session hijacking attack with the known vulnerability. And, an improved 4-way handshake mechanism which can counter PSK cracking attack and a cookie replay detection mechanism which can prevent cookie session hijacking attack were proposed. Proposed mechanisms are expected to apply to establish more secure wireless LAN environment by countering existing vulnerability.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.57-66
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• 2013

무선랜이 폭발적으로 증가함에 따라, 기술 발전에 힘입은 네트워크 품질은 많이 향상되었지만, 보안 품질은 아직도 요원한 상황이다. 본고에서는 무선랜상에서 아이디 보안 취약성을 이용한 공격들과 이를 탐지하고 방어할 수 있는 디바이스 식별 기술에 대한 동향을 파악한다. 무선랜상에서 아이디 보안 취약성을 이용하는 MAC 속임 공격은 공격자의 존재를 속일 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 네트워크 및 시스템 권한을 획득할 수 있기 때문에 네트워크 보안에 큰 위협이 되고 있다. 무선디바이스 식별 기술로서는 인증 방식, 프로토콜 분석 방식, 위치확인 방식, RF 지문 방식 등 많은 기법들이 있다. 본고에서는 이러한 기술들 중에서 현재 가장 활발하게 연구되고 있는 RF 지문 기술을 시스템 구조, 디바이스 식별 방법, 보안 취약성, 그리고 보안 응용 관점에서 자세히 분석한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.195-201
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• 2019

This paper proposes a blockchain system to share Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that recently suffers from mutual interference among increasing devices using unlicensed bands. Blockchain technology can induce cooperation from users by incentivizing them with cryptocurrency like shown in Bitcoin example. In this paper, we describe Blockchain based access mechanism in WLAN instead of conventional authentication based access. Here, users can access any WLAN access point by paying through smart contract while they also receive payment from others. In order to support real-time transaction, we apply proof-of-authority that is realized by Byzantine fault tolerant protocol instead of well-known proof-of-work that requires huge computing power and delay.

• TTA Journal
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• s.146
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• pp.67-72
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• 2013

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.999-1002
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• 2005

IEEE 802.11b의 사용자 인증 취약성을 보완한 프레임워크인 IEEE 802.1x는 EAP를 통해 다양한 사용자 인증 메커니즘을 지원한다. 그러나 IEEE 802.1x 역시 인증 프로토콜의 구조적 원인에 의한 서비스 거부 공격과 AP에 대한 인증 및 암호 메커니즘의 부재로 세션 하이재킹 및 중간자 공격 등에 취약하다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.1x 프레임워크의 서비스 거부, 세션 하이재킹 및 중간자 공격에 대한 취약성을 보완하여 강화된 사용자 인증 및 안전한 암호통신 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 무선랜 보안시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.1983-1989
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• 2012

The IEEE 802.1x standard provides an architectural framework which can be used various authentication methods. But, IEEE 802.1x also has vulnerabilities about the DoS(Denial of Service), the session hijacking and the MiM(Man in the Middle) attack due to caused by structural of authentication protocol. In this paper, we propose a WLAN system which can offer safety communication by complement of IEEE 802.1x vulnerabilities. The WLAN system accomplishes mutual authentications between authentication servers, clients and the AP using PKI and prevents an illegal user from intervening in communication to disguise oneself as a client, the AP or authentication servers. Also, we guarantee the safety of the communication by the Dynamic WEP key distribution between clients and the AP.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.5 s.37
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• pp.161-170
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• 2005

The Certificate Revocation List(CRL) or the Online Certificate Status Protocol(OCSP)has been used to validate certificates. However, the CRL cannot validate certificates in realtime because of the Time-Gap problem and the OCSP server overloads in a large scale secure system. In addition, the client cannot access a wired LAN until the client has been authenticated by the authentication server on the IEEE 802. 1x framework. Therefore, the client cannot validate the authentication server's certificate using a certificate validation server. Thus, the client cannot authenticate the authentication server in realtime. To solve these problems this paper designed a secure system that can protect the content of communications and authenticate users in realtime on a wireless LAN The designed certificate validation protocol was proved that the stability and efficiency of the system was very high, the result of the validation had the presence, the speed of the validation was not affected by the system scale, the number of authorities user must trust was reduced to one, and the overload of the validation server was Protected. And the designed user authentication and key exchange protocols were Proved that the mutual authentication was possible in realtime and the fact of the authentication could be authorized by the CA because of using the authorized certificates.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.45-55
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• 2003

Wireless LAM has the advantage of extension, flexibility and easiness of installation and maintenance. However, due to the characteristics of wireless media, it is vulnerable to security attacks. PKI(Public Key Infrastructure) is estimated to be a good solution offering security function to wireless LAM including global roaming. It offers high security functions as authentication confidentiality and digital signature while it generates big overheads such as CRL search and certificate verification. The overheads can not be avoided during the initial authentication. However, when we consider the case of handoff, it can be minimized through the fast handoff. In this paper, we design a fast handoff authentication mechanism based on PKI in the wireless LAM and analyze the performance of the scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.505-509
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• 2006

Recently, wireless Internet service has become generalized, and required the user authentication of a mobile hosts and QoS. However, time required for user authentication during handoff Processes between a wireless LAN system and mobile hosts is long, and is unsuitable for real-time communication and multimedia applications. In this paper. we improved the existing system in order to reduce a lead time of user authentication as they extended a Fast Inter-AP handoff. We use a Mechanism to assume a confidence degree with bases by the time that stayed at individual wireless LAN systems in order to reduce the handoffs. The experiment network shows that it decreases communication load, and improves communication QoS.