• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.71-80
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• 2002

To provide the confidentiality of messages transmitted over the network, the use of cryptographic system is increasing gradually and the hybrid cryptosystem, which combines the advantages of the symmetric cryptosystem and the public key cryptosystem is widely used. In this paper, we proposes a new hybrid cryptosystem capable of providing implicit authentication for the sender of the ciphertext by means of the 1-pass key distribution protocol that offers implicit key authentication, hash function and symmetric cryptosystem. Also, we describe some examples such as the Diffie-Hellman based system and the Nyberg-Ruppel based system. The proposed hybrid cryptosystem is an efficient more than general public key cryptosystems in the aspect of computation work and provides implicit authentication for the sender without additional increase of the communication overhead.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.41-55
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• 2005

A group key agreement protocol allows a group of user to share a key which may later be used to achieve certain cryptographic goals. In this paper, we propose a new scalable two-round ID-based group key agreement protocol which would be well fit to a Pay-TV system, additionally. to the fields of internet stock quotes, audio and music deliveries, software updates and the like. Our protocol improves the three round poop key agreement protocol of Nam et al., resulting in upgrading the computational efficiency by using the batch verification technique in pairing-based cryptography. Also our protocol simplifies the key agreement procedures by utilizing ID-based system. We prove the security of our protocol under the Computational Diffie-Hellman assumption and the Bilinear Decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption. Also we analyze its efficiency.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1388-1397
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• 2015

Recently, an application business model was proposed to implement an M-coupon system using the NFC-based mobile devices. In this paper, the security requirements were surveyed for a secure M-coupon system and to analyze the threats on the existing NFC-based M-coupon protocols. After considering the implementation efficiency and security, this paper presents a novel M-coupon protocol based on the Diffie-Hellman key agreement scheme. This protocol can be an alternative to solve the security problems related to the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and secret key distribution. Furthermore, this M-coupon protocol is designed to provide user authentication and counteract the relay attack.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3338-3351
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• 2012

There is an intuitive connection between signcryption and key agreement. Such a connector may lead to a novel way to construct authenticated and efficient group key agreement protocols. In this paper, we present a primary approach for constructing an authenticated group key agreement protocol from signcryption. This approach introduces desired properties to group key agreement. What this means is that the signcryption gives assurance to a sender that the key is available only to the recipient, and assurance to the recipient that the key indeed comes from the sender. Following the generic construction, we instantiate a distributed two-round group key agreement protocol based on signcryption scheme given by Dent [8]. We also show that this concrete protocol is secure in the outsider unforgeability notion and the outsider confidentiality notion assuming hardness of the Gap Diffie-Hellman problem.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.347-352
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new key exchange protocol which authenticates each other and shares a session key between a user and a server over an insecure channel using only a small password. The security of the protocol is based on the difficulty of solving the discrete logarithm problem and the Diffie-Hellman problem and the cryptographic strength of hash function. The protocol is secure against the man-in-the-middle attack, the password guessing attack, the Denning-Sacco attack, and the stolen-verifier attack, and provide the perfect forward secrecy. Furthermore, it is more efficient than other well-known protocols in terms of protocol execution time because it could be executed in parallel and has a simple structure.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.12
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• pp.1256-1262
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• 2012

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-less, autonomous, and stand-alone wireless networks with dynamic topologies. Recently, cluster-based ad hoc networks which enhance the security and efficiency of ad hoc networks are being actively researched. And routing protocols for cluster-based ad hoc networks are also studied. However, there are few studies about secure routing protocols in cluster-based ad hoc networks. In this paper, we propose secure routing protocol for cluster-based ad hoc networks. We use Diffie-Hellman key agreement, HMAC, and digital signature to support integrity of routing messages, and finally can perform secure routing.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.252-258
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new authenticated key exchange protocol in which client and sever can mutually authenticate and establish a session key over an insecure channel using only a human memorable password. The proposed protocol is based on Diffie-Hellman scheme and has many of desirable security attributes: It resists off-line dictionary attacks mounted by either Passive or active adversaries over network, allowing low-entropy Passwords to be used safely. It also offers perfect forward secrecy, which protects past sessions when passwords are compromised. In particular, the advantage of our scheme is that it is secure against an impersonation attack, even if a server's password file is exposed to an adversary. The proposed scheme here shows that it has better performance when compared to the previous notable password-based key exchange methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.49-59
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• 2002

As the electronic commerce increases rapidly in the mobile communication, security issues become more important. A suitable authentication and key agreement for the mobile communication environment is a essential condition. Some protocols based on the public key cryptosystem such as Diffie-Hellman, EIGamal etc. were adapted in the mobile communication. But these protocols that are based on the difficult mathematical problem in the algebra, are so slow and have long key-length. Therefore, these have many limitation to apply to the mobile communication. In this paper, we propose an authentication and key agreement protocol based on NTRU to overcome the restriction of the mobile communication environment such as limited sources. low computational fewer, and narrow bandwidth. The proposed protocol is faster than other protocols based on ECC, because of addition and shift operation with small numbers in the truncated polynomial ring. And it is as secure as other existent mathematical problem because it is based on finding the Shortest or Closest Vector Problem(SVP/CVP).

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.547-549
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• 2002

Seo와 Sweeny는 통신 당사자간의 직접적인 세션키(session key) 교환을 위해 SAKA(Simple Authenticated Key Agreement Algorithm)를 제안했다. SAKA는 패스워드(password)를 사용하여 사용자인증 기능을 제공하는 변형된 Diffie-Hellman 키 교환 프로토콜로써, 키 생성 및 사용자 인증 시 요구되는 계산량과 메시지 전송량을 고려할 때 효율적인 프로토콜이다. 그러나, 최근에 Lin은 SAKA의 안전성에 취약점이 있음을 지적하고 개선된 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 개선된 프로토콜이 여전히 재전송 공격(replay attack)에 안전하지 않기 때문에 사용자 인증을 제공 할 수 없음을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.171-175
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• 2006

Diffie-Hellman기반 키 합의 프로토콜들은 비교적 고비용의 연산인 지수연산으로 인해, 유선 네트워크 환경에 비해 저전력이고 컴퓨팅 자원이 제한되어 있는 무선 네트워크 환경에서는 비효율적이고 구현하기 어려운 문제가 있다. 이에 Yang등은 대리서버(Proxy Server)를 이용하여 Diffie-Hellman방식을 적용하면서도 단말 무선 네트워크 사용자의 지수연산부담을 감소시키는 효율적인 키 합의 프로토콜(이하 SEKAP)을 제안하였다. 그러나 SEKAP는 재전송공격(Replay Attack), 알려지지 않은 키 공유 공격(Unknown Key Share Attack), 그리고 키 노출로 인한 위장공격(Key Compromised Impersonation Attack) 등에 취약하며 전방향 안전성(Forward Secrecy)을 제공하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 SEKAP가 위 공격들에 대해 취약함을 보이고, 세션키의 상호인증을 추가한 개선된 프로토콜을 제안한다.