• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.229-239
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• 2009

To solve user authentication problem, many remote user authentication schemes using password and smart card at the same time have been proposed. Due to the increasing of interest in personal privacy, there were some recent researches to provide user anonymity. In 2004, Das et al. firstly proposed an authentication scheme that guarantees user anonymity using a dynamic ID. In 2005, Chien et al. pointed out that Das et al.'s scheme has a vulnerability for guaranteing user anonymity and proposed an improved scheme. However their authentication scheme was found some weaknesses about insider attack, DoS attack, and restricted replay attack. In this paper, we propose an enhanced scheme which can remove vulnerabilities of Chien et al.'s scheme. The proposed authentication protocol prevented insider attack by using user's Nonce value and removed the restricted replay attack by replacing time stamp with random number. Furthermore, we improved computational efficiency by eliminating the exponentiation operation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.139-147
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• 2010

A remote user authentication scheme is a two-party protocol whereby an authentication server in a distributed system confirms the identity of a remote individual logging on to the server over an untrusted, open network. In 2005, Liao et al. proposed a remote user authentication scheme using a smart card, in which users can be authenticated anonymously. Recently, Yoon et al. have discovered some security flaws in Liao et al.'s authentication scheme and proposed an improved version of this scheme to fix the security flaws. In this article, we review the improved authentication scheme by Yoon et al. and provide a security analysis on the scheme. Our analysis shows that Yoon et al.'s scheme does not guarantee not only any kind of authentication, either server-to-user authentication or user-to-server authentication but also password security. The contribution of the current work is to demonstrate these by mounting two attacks, a server impersonation attack and a user impersonation attack, and an off-line dictionary attack on Yoon et al.'s scheme. In addition, we propose the enhanced authentication scheme that eliminates the security vulnerabilities of Yoon et al.'s scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.159-166
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• 2012

Many biometrics-based user authentication schemes using smart cards have been proposed to improve the security weaknesses in user authentication system. In 2010, Chang et al. proposed an improved biometrics-based user authentication scheme without concurrency system which can withstand forgery attack, off-line password guessing attack, replay attack, etc. In this paper, we analyze the security weaknesses of Chang et al.'s scheme and we have shown that Chang et al.'s scheme is still insecure against man-in-the-middle attack, off-line biometrics guessing attack, and does not provide mutual authentication between the user and the server. And we proposed the improved scheme to overcome these security weaknesses, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result, the proposed scheme is secure for the user authentication attack, the server masquerading attack, the man-in-the-middle attack, and the off-line biometrics guessing attack, does provide the mutual authentication between the user and the remote server. And, in terms of computational complexities, the proposed scheme is more effective than Chang et al.'s scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.101-108
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• 2021

In this paper, we analyze Shin's proposed dynamic ID-based user authentication scheme for TMIS(Telecare Medicine Information System), and Shin's authentication scheme is vulnerable to smart card loss attacks, allowing attackers to acquire user IDs, which enables user impersonation attack. In 2019, Shin's proposed authentication scheme attempted to generate a strong random number using ECC, claiming that it is safe to lose a smart card because it is impossible to calculate random number r'i due to the difficulty of the ECC algorithm without knowing random number ri. However, after analyzing Shin's authentication scheme in this paper, the use of transmission messages and smart cards makes it easy to calculate random numbers r'i, which also enables attackers to generate session keys. In addition, Shin's authentication scheme were analyzed to have significantly greater overhead than other authentication scheme, including vulnerabilities to safety analysis, the lack of a way to pass the server's ID to users, and the lack of biometric characteristics with slightly different templates.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.127-137
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• 2019

The growth in smartphone service has given rise to an increase in frequency and importance of authentication. Existing smartphone authentication mechanisms such as passwords, pattern lock and fingerprint recognition require a high level of awareness and authenticate users temporarily with a point-of-entry techniques. To overcome these disadvantages, there have been active researches in behavior-based authentication. However, previous studies focused on enhancing the accuracy of the authentication. Since authentication is directly used by people, it is necessary to reflect actual users' perception. This paper proposes user perception on behavior-based authentication with feature analysis. We conduct user survey to empirically understand user perception regarding behavioral authentication with selected authentication features. Then, we analyze acceptance of the behavioral authentication to provide continuous authentication with minimal awareness while using the device.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.159-164
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• 2018

This paper deals with the comparative analysis the two surveys called term1, term2 by collecting 4-digit password data 1313 for 2006~2011 and 2519 for 2012~ 2017. Numbers lacking prudence were significantly reduced in the term2 survey and over time, the use of four digit PWs became increasingly prudent. There was a difference in the use of digit numbers between male and female. The top five types accounted over 60%, which imply that certain types of preferences are present. It was the outcome of this paper that we can indirectly deduce these facts. Studies such as reuse of four digit PWs in user's convenience will need to be supplemented in the near future.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.1152-1159
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• 2019

The Nintendo Switch(NSW), which appeared as an 8th generation console, has succeeded worldwide as a hybrid gaming console. The NSW has E-shop itself, users can sign in to their account and purchase games. The keypad built in the NSW is similar to QWERTY keyboard. In the password input field the input information is hidden, but it's possible to get the value entered from the keypad with shoulder surfing attack. Because of the NSW with many party or family games, there is a high probability that someone else is watching the screen nearby, which acts as a vulnerability in account security. Thus we designed the new keypad which improve from this issue. In this paper, we check the problem about the keypad which built in the NSW, we present the proposed keypad and the compared to the built in keypad by showing the test result of unspecified individuals use.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.48-53
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• 2021

The authentication process is a key step that should be used to verify that a user is legitimate, and it should be used to verify that a user is a legitimate user and grant access only to that user. Recently, two-factor authentication and OTP schemes are used by most applications to add a layer of security to the login process and to address the vulnerability of using only one factor for authentication, but this method also allows access to user accounts without permission. This is a known security vulnerability. In this paper, we propose a Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) personal information authentication scheme based on a Smart Contract of a block chain that authenticates users with minimal personal information exposure conditions. This has the advantage of providing many security technologies to the authentication process based on blockchain technology, and that personal information authentication can be performed more safely than the existing authentication method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1228-1233
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• 2019

Recently, a variety of algorithms using encryption technology have been adopted as methods of unlocking smartphone. It is advancing toward the direction to solve the unlocking problem through human biometrics technology, which has already succeeded in commercializing. These include finger print recognition, face recognition, and iris recognition. In this study, the evaluation items are five algorithms, including finger print recognition, face recognition, iris recognition, pattern recognition, and password input method. Based on the algorithms adopted, the AHP (analytic hierarchy process) technique was used to calculate the preferred priorities for smartphone users. Finger print recognition ( .400) was the top priority for smartphone users. Next, pattern recognition ( .237) was placed in the second priority for smartphone users. Therefore, based on the results of the analysis, the limitations of the study and theoretical implications are suggested.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.91-104
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• 2003

A masquerader is someone who pretends to be another user while invading the target user's accounts, directories, or files. The masquerade attack is the most serious computer misuse. Because, in most cases, after securing the other's password, the masquerader enters the computer system. The system such as IDS could not detect or response to the masquerader. The masquerade detection is the effort to find the masquerader automatically. This system will detect the activities of a masquerader by determining that user's activities violate a profile developed for that user with his audit data. From 1988, there are many efforts on this topic, but the success of the offers was limited and the performance was unsatisfactory. In this report we propose efficient masquerade detection system using SVM which create the user profile.