• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1218-1225
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• 2004

S/KEY system was proposed to guard against intruder's password replay attack. But S/KEY system has vulnerability that if an attacker derive passphrase from his dictionary file, he can acquire one-time password required for user authentication. In this paper, we propose a correct S/KEY system mixed with EKE to solve the problem. Also, we specify a new S/KEY system with Casper and CSP, verify its secrecy and authentication requirements using FDR model checking tool.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.628-630
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• 2009

Recently, Ratha and others proposed a cancelable biometrics scheme which transforms an original fingerprint template into a new one using a noninvertible transformation. However, we show that the original template is recovered by a dictionary attack if two transformed templates originating from it are revealed. In our attack, we simulate the transformation and construct a set of possible pre-images for each transformed template. Then, we find the correct pre-image by computing the intersection of these sets. We present an algorithm implementing this idea as well as successful experimental results.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.83-88
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• 2008

Session initiation protocol (SIP) is an application-layer prolocol to initiate and control multimedia client session. When client ask to use a SIP service, they need to be authenticated in order to get service from the server. Authentication in a SIP application is the process in which a client agent present credentials to another SIP element to establish a session or be granted access to the network service. In 2005, Yang et al. proposed a key exchange and authentication scheme for use in SIP applications, which is based on the Diffie-Hellman protocol. But, Yang et al.'s scheme is not suitable for the hardware-limited client and severs, since it requires the protocol participant to perform significant amount of computations (i.e., four modular exponentiations). Based on this observation. Huang and Wei have recently proposed a new efficient key exchange and authentication scheme thor improves on Yang et al.'s scheme. As for security, Huang and Wei claimed, among others, that their scheme is resistant to offline dictionary attacks. However, the claim turned out to be untrue. In this paper, we show thor Huang and Wei's key exchange and authentication scheme is vulnerable to on offline dictionary attack and forward secrecy.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.121-132
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• 2009

Default password protection used in operating systems have had many advances, but when the attacker has physical access to the server or gets root(administrator) privileges, the attacker can steal the password information(e.g. shadow file in Unix-like systems or SAM file in Windows), and using brute force and dictionary attacks can manage to obtain users' passwords. It is really difficult to obligate users to use complex passwords, so it is really common to find weak accounts to exploit. In this paper, we present a secure authentication scheme based on digital signatures and secure key storage that solves this problem, and explain the possible implementations using Trusted Platform Module(TPM). We also make a performance analysis of hardware and software TPMs inside implementations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.9B
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• pp.931-938
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• 2009

Recently, Holbl et al. proposed an improvement to Peyravian-Jeffries's password-based authentication protocol to overcome some security flaws. However, Munilla et al. showed that Holbl et al.'s improvement is still vulnerable to off-line password guessing attack. In this paper, we provide a secure password-based authentication protocol which gets rid of the security flaws of Holbl et al.'s protocol.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.346-350
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• 2007

Almost all network systems provide an authentication mechanism based on user ID and password. In such system, it is easy to obtain the user password using a sniffer program with illegal eavesdropping. The one-time password and challenge-response method are useful authentication schemes that protect the user passwords against eavesdropping. In client/server environments, the one-time password scheme using time is especially useful because it solves the synchronization problem. It is the stability that is based on Square Root Problem, and we would like to suggest PBSI(Password Based Secure Identification), enhancing the stability, for all of the well-known attacks by now including Off-line dictionary attack, password file compromise, Server and so on. The PBSI is also excellent in the aspect of the performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.71-74
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• 2001

패스워드는 가장 광범위한 인증의 수단으로 사용되어지고 있다. 안전성 측면에서는 패스워드의 길이가 길수록 안전하고 Dictionary Attack 등에 강할 것이다. 그러나, 긴 패스워드를 기억하고 있는 것은 어려운 일이다. 또한, 하나 이상의 패스워드가 필요한 경우 현실적으로 긴 패스워드를 모두 기억하고 있는 것은 현실적으로 불가능, 혹은 어려운 일이다. 또한, 인터넷 보안을 위한 비밀성을 보장하기 위해서 블록암호알고리즘을 사용하고 있다. 공개키보다 빠른 연산속도를 가지고 있고, 키 분배의 문제를 해결한다면 안전한 인터넷을 이용할 수 있을 것이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 짧은 패스워드를 이용하여 키 분배를 이루는 프로토콜을 제안한다. 또한 공격에 강한 알고리즘을 위해서 본 논문에서는 Signcryption 알고리즘을 이용하여 짧은 패스워드를 가지고 키분배를 하고, Dictionary Attack에 강한 알고리즘을 설계한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.213-216
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• 2005

Almost all network systems provide an authentication mechanism based on user ID and password. In such system, it is easy to obtain the user password using a sniffer program with illegal eavesdropping. The one-time password and challenge-response method are useful authentication schemes that protect the user passwords against eavesdropping. In client/server environments, the one-time password scheme using time is especially useful because it solves the synchronization problem. It is the stability that is based on Square Root Problem, and we would like to suggest PBI(password Based Identification), enhancing the stability, for all of the well-known attacks by now including Off-line dictionary attack, password file compromise, Server and so on. The PBI is also excellent in the aspect of the performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.393-398
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 사용자 인증에 사용되는 패스워드 검증자의 안전성을 더욱 보강한 새로운 패스워드 검증자 기반 키 분배 프로토콜을 제안한다 기존 패스워드 기반 키 분배프로토콜 방식은 네트워크 상에서 패스워드의 안전한 전송이 어려웠고, 패스워드 파일의 안전한 보호가 어렵다는 문제가 있었다. 이에 패스워드 파일을 그대로 서버에 저장하지 않고 패스워드를 사용하여 생성한 검증자(verifier)를 저장하게 함으로써 패스워드파일을 보다 안전하게 보호할 수 있게 되었으며, 서버가 사용자의 패스워드를 알지 못하더라도 검증자를 사용한 증명방식을 통해 사용자를 인증할 수 있게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 사용자와 서버의 비밀정보로 만든 새로운 형태의 검증자를 사용하고, 사용자는 다른 저장정보 없이 기억하고 있는 ID와 패스워드만을 사용하여 키 분배를 수행하는 패스워드 검증자 기반 키 분배 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 프로토콜의 안전성 분석을 위해 active impersonation과 forward secrecy, man-in-the-middle attack, off-line dictionary attack 등의 공격 모델을 적용하였다.

• 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.