• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.41-47
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• 2008

In a network environment, when a user requests a server's service, he/she must pass an examination of user authentication. Through this process, the server can determine if the user can use the provided services and the exact access rights of this user in these services. In these authentication schemes, the security of private information became an important issue. For this reason, many suggestions have been made in order to protect the privacy of users and smart cards have been widely used for authentication systems providing anonymity of users recently. An remote user authentication system using smart cards is a very practical solution to validate the eligibility of a user and provide secure communication. However, there are no studies in attribute-based authentication schemes using smart cards so far. In this paper, we propose a novel user authentication scheme using smart cards based on attributes. The major merits include : (1) the proposed scheme achieves the low-computation requirement for smart cards; (2) user only needs to register once and can use permitted various services according to attributes; (3) the proposed scheme guarantees perfect anonymity to remote server.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.2646-2659
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• 2017

Equipped with the advantages of flexible access control and fine-grained authentication, attribute based signcryption is diffusely designed for security preservation in many scenarios. However, realizing efficient key evolution and reducing the calculation costs are two challenges which should be given full consideration in attribute based cryptosystem. In this paper, we present a key-policy attribute based signcryption scheme (KP-ABSC) with delegated computation and efficient key updating. In our scheme, an access structure is embedded into user's private key, while ciphertexts corresponds a target attribute set. Only the two are matched can a user decrypt and verify the ciphertexts. When the access privileges have to be altered or key exposure happens, the system will evolve into the next time slice to preserve the forward security. What's more, data receivers can delegate most of the de-signcryption task to data server, which can reduce the calculation on client's side. By performance analysis, our scheme is shown to be secure and more efficient, which makes it a promising method for data protection in data outsourcing systems.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.79-82
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• 2012

In digital contents distribution environments, a user authentication is an important security primitive to allow only authenticated user to use right services by checking the validity of membership. For example, in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) environments, it is required to provide an access control according to the policy of content provider. Remote user authentication and key agreement scheme is used to validate the contents accessibility of a user. We propose a novel user authentication scheme using smart cards providing a secure access to multimedia contents service. Each user is authenticated using a subset of attributes which are issued in the registration phase without revealing individual's identity. Our scheme provides the anonymous authentication and the various permissions according to the combination of attributes which are assigned to each user. In spite of more functionality, the result of performance analysis shows that the computation and communication cost is very low. Using this scheme, the security of contents distribution environments in the client-server model can be significantly improved.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.7-13
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• 2017

In recent years, cloud computing technology has been socially emerged that provides services remotely as various devices are used. However, there are increasing attempts by some users to provide cloud computing services with malicious intent. In this paper, we propose a property - based multi - level hierarchical approach to facilitate authentication access for users accessing servers in cloud environment. The proposed method improves the security efficiency as well as the server efficiency by hierarchically distributing a set of attribute values by replacing the order of the user 's attribute values in the form of bits according to a certain rule. In the performance evaluation, the proposed method shows that the accuracy of authentication according to the number of attributes is higher than that of the existing method by an average of 15.8% or more, and the authentication delay time of the server is decreased by 10.7% on average. As the number of attributes increases, the average overhead change is 8.5% lower than that of the conventional method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.31-45
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• 2004

Public Key Infrastructure(PKI) provides a strong authentication. Privilege Management Infrastructure(PMI) as a new technology can provide user's attribute information. The main function of PMI is to give more specified authority and role to user. To authenticate net and role, we have used digital signature. Role Based Access Control(RBAC) is implemented by digital signature. RBAC provides some flexibility for security management. NEIS(National Education Information System) can not always provide satisfied quality of security management. The main idea of the proposed RNEIS(Roll Based NEIS) is that user's role is stored in AC, access control decisions are driven by authentication policy and role. Security manager enables user to refer to the role stored in user's AC, admits access control and suggests DB encryption by digital signature.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.16 no.6_2
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• pp.83-88
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• 2016

Over recent years there has been considerable growth in interest in the use of biometric systems for personal authentication. Biometrics is a field of technology which has been and is being used in the identification of individuals based on some physical attribute. By using biometrics, authentication is directly linked to the person, rather than their token or password. Biometric authentication is a type of system that relies on the unique biological characteristics of individuals to verify identity for secure access to electronic systems. In 2013, Althobati et al. proposed an efficient remote user authentication protocol using biometric information. However, we uncovered Althobati et al.'s protocol does not guarantee its main security goal of mutual authentication. We showed this by mounting threat of data integrity and bypassing the gateway node attack on Althobati et al.'s protocol. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme to overcome these security weaknesses by storing secret data in device. In addition, our proposed scheme should provide not only security, but also efficiency since sensors in WSN(Wireless Sensor Networks) operate with resource constraints such as limited power, computation, and storage space.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.3
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• pp.287-294
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• 2003

Authentication and authorization are essential functions for the security of distributed network environment. Authorization is determining and to decide whether a user or process is permitted to perform a particular operation. In this paper, we design an authorization mechanism to make a system more effective with Kerberos for authentication mechanism. In the authorization mechanism, Kerberos server operates proxy privilege server. Proxy privilege server manages and permits right of users, servers and services with using proposed algorithm. Also, privilege attribute certificate issued by proxy privilege server is used in delegation. We designed secure kerberos with proposed functions for effective authorization at the same time authentication of Kerberos mechanism.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.977-980
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• 2001

This paper is a study on the AC and PMI model for the defense computer network. It is suggested that the organization plan of PMI model is a proper model for the characteristics of military system and military defense network security demands based on defense PKI system. Futhermore, it will be presented both various types of defense AC and AC according to the role and clearance in PMI. Defense AC will provide strong users' authentication and Role Based Access Control to give more secured and trusted authentication service by using users' attribute such as role and clearance.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.295-302
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• 2016

Many countries, especially ICT powers, are supporting IoT-based technology at a national level and this technology is actively being researched in the businesses and research institutes in an aim to develop technology and create an ecosystem. Roads in the Seoul city are building public facilities based on IoT to provide various services and conveniences for the users. However, for the full-fledged introduction and development of IoT, there are many cases where infringement on security and privacy and threat for life and safety happen. Also, as the IoT environment includes various environment technologies such as the existing sensor network, heterogeneous communication network, and devices optimized for the IoT environment, it inherits the existing security threat and various attack techniques. This paper researches the attribute based encryption technology for safe communication in the IoT environment. The data collected from the device is transmitted utilizing the attribute based encryption and by designing the key generation protocol, grades and authorities for the device and users are identified to transmit safe messages.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.739-741
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• 2003

AAA(Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) 프로토콜은 기존의 PPP 뿐만 아니라 VoIP 및 Mobile IP 등과 같은 차세대의 다양한 네트워크와 프로토콜 상에서 안전하고 신뢰성 있는 사용자의 인증, 권한관리 및 과금을 제공하는 정보보호 메커니즘이다. 그러나 이러한 AAA 프로토콜에서는 사용자의 권한관리에 대한 표준화된 메커니즘을 제공하지 않고 있어, 도메인간의 로밍 및 새로이 출현하는 서비스 상의 권한관리에 대해 확장성 및 호환성이 결여될 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 IETF에서 권한관리 기반구조의 표준으로 제시하고 있는 속성 인증서(Attribute Certificate)를 통해 Diameter 프로토콜에서의 효과적이고 표준화된 권한관리 메커니즘을 제안하고, 관련 Diameter 메시지 등을 정의하였다.