• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.287-299
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• 2016

The electronic transactions over the Internet are growing across the world recently. There have been a lot of identity theft incidents during these online transactions nowaday. Therefore, a high level of identity proofing shall be carried out when using online services to deal with these matter. To prevent this kind of incident, i-PIN was introduced in Korea, which is used as an Internet Personal Identification Number. The i-PIN is designated to provide an online identification of the Internet users. As such, the unique identification numbers are provided to the internet service providers. This paper is to analyze the capabilities that the i-PIN provides, to propose the assurance security model for i-PIN. Furthermore, the security analysis results are presented. The result of this paper can be applicable to improve the applicabilities of the i-PIN.