• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.101-110
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• 2003

Secure and reliable group communication is an increasingly active research area prompted by the growing popularity of many types of group-oriented and collaborative applications. The central challenge is secure and efficient group key management. While centralized methods are often appropriate for key distribution in large multicast-style groups, many collaborative group settings require distributed key agreement techniques. Most of prior group key agreement protocols have been focused on reducing the computational costs. One exception is STR protocol that optimizes communicational cost. On the other hand, it requires O(n) number of modular exponentiations. In this paper, we propose a new group key agreement protocol that modifies STR protocol by utilizing pairing based cryptography. The resulting protocol reduces computational cost of STR protocol while preserving the communication cost.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.13-25
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• 2004

The key exchange protocols are very crucial tools to provide the secure communication in the broadband satellite access network. They should be required to satisfy various requirements such as security, key confirmation, and key freshness. In this paper, we present the guideline of security functions in BSAN(Broadband Satellite Access Network), and analyze the specification of the security primitives and the hey exchange Protocols for the authenticated key agreement between RCST(Return Channel Satellite Terminal) and NCC(fretwork Control Centre). In addition, we propose the security specification for a domestic broad satellite network based on the analysis on the analysis profile of ETSI(European Telecommunications Standards Institute) standards. The key exchange protocols proposed in ETSI standard are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack and they don't provide key confirmation. To overcome this shortcoming, we propose the 4 types of the key exchange protocols which have the resistant to man-in-the-middle-attack, key freshness, and key confirmation, These proposed protocols can be used as a key exchange protocol between RCST and NCC in domestic BSAN. These proposed protocols are based on DH key exchange protocol, MTI(Matsumoto, Takashima, Imai) key exchange protocol, and ECDH(Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman).

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.103-118
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• 2002

To provide the privacy of transmitted message over network the use of cryptographic system is increasing gradually. Because the security and reliability of the cryptographic system is totally rely on the key, the key management is the most important part of the cryptographic system. Although there are a lot of security products providing encryption, the security of the key exchange protocols used in the product are not mostly proved yet. Therefore, we have to study properties and operation of key agreement protocols based on elliptic curve in ANSI X9.63. furthermore, we analyze the security of their protocols under passive and active attacker models and propose the most suitable application field taking the feature of the protocols into account.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.506-510
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• 2006

3G 이동통신기술중 하나인 UMTS(Universal Mobile Telecommunications System)에서는 무선 구간의 안전한 통신을 위해 UMTS-AKA(Authentication and Key Agreement) 프로토콜이 사용된다. 그러나 SN(Serving Network)과 HN(Home Network)의 통신량 소비 문제, SQN(SeQuence Number) 동기화 문제 등 여러 가지 문제점이 제기되었다. 본 논문에서는 기존 프로토콜의 문제점과 IMSI(International Mobile Subscriber Identity)의 노출로 인한 프라이버시 문제점을 해결하고, ECDH(Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman) 기법으로 완전한 전방향 안전성을 제공하는 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.299-302
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 패스워드 검증자(verifier) 기반의 인증 및 키 교환 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안한 프로토콜은 패스워드 기반 프로토콜들의 가장 큰 문제점인 패스워드 추측공격과 중간 침입자 공격, 그리고 Denning-Sacco 공격에 안전하며, 완전한 전방향 보안성을 제공할 수 있다. 그리고 패스워드 검증자를 기반으로 하기 때문에 서버의 패스워드 파일의 노출에도 안전하다. 제안된 프로토콜의 안전성은 이산대수 문제와 Diffie-Hellman 문제의 어려움, 그리고 해쉬 함수의 암호학적 강도에 기반을 두고 있다. 또한 제안한 프로토콜은 구조가 간단하고 병렬 처리가 가능하기 때문에 안전하다고 알려진 기존의 프로토콜들과 비교하여 효율적이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2003

Diffie-Hellman(DH) 키공유 기법［1］이 제안된 후 많은 종류의 키공유 기법들이 연구되었으며, 특히 특정한 그룹 내의 구성원들이 안전한 통신을 할 수 있게 하기 위한 그룹 기반의 키공유 기법들에 대한 많은 방식들이 제안되었다. 이러한 방식들은 PKI 기반 구조 등을 사용하는 여러 응용들에서 쉽게 사용될 수 있지만, Ad-hoc 통신망이라는 특정한 기반구조를 사용할 수 없는 환경에서는 적용하기가 쉽지 않다. ［2］에서는 Ad-hoc 환경에서의 그룹(conference) 기반의 키공유 기법을 제안하였지만, (n＋2)-라운드의 통신량이 요구되며, 그룹 구성원들의 위치정보를 알고 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 ad-hoc 환경에서의 효율적이며, 그룹 구성원들의 위치정보를 알 필요 없는 2-라운드 키공유 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.712-714
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• 2001

낮은 엔트로피의 패스워드를 이용하여 안전한 인증 및 키교환을 위해 Diffie-Hellman에 기반한 AMP(Authentication and key agreement via Memorable Password) 프로토콜이 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 타원곡선 암호화가 가질수 있는 높은 보안성과 효율성을을 위해 타원곡선이산대수문제(Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem)에 기반한 EC-AMP (Elliptic Curve-AMP)프로토콜을 제안한다. EC-AMP는 랜덤 오라클(random oracle) 모델에서 여러 가지 공격에 대해 안전하므로 인증 및 키교환이 필요한 네트워크 환경에 패스워드를 이용함으로 얻을수 있는 편의성과 타원곡선이산대수문제가 제공하는 안전성을 보장할 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.75-81
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• 2003

User authentication, including confidentiality, integrity over untrusted networks, is an important part of security for systems that allow remote access. Using human-memorable Password for remote user authentication is not easy due to the low entropy of the password, which constrained by the memory of the user. This paper presents a new password authentication and key agreement protocol suitable for authenticating users and exchanging keys over an insecure channel. The new protocol resists the dictionary attack and offers perfect forward secrecy, which means that revealing the password to an attacher does not help him obtain the session keys of past sessions against future compromises. Additionally user passwords are stored in a form that is not plaintext-equivalent to the password itself, so an attacker who captures the password database cannot use it directly to compromise security and gain immediate access to the server. It does not have to resort to a PKI or trusted third party such as a key server or arbitrator So no keys and certificates stored on the users computer. Further desirable properties are to minimize setup time by keeping the number of flows and the computation time. This is very useful in application which secure password authentication is required such as home banking through web, SSL, SET, IPSEC, telnet, ftp, and user mobile situation.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.2 s.98
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• pp.157-168
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• 2005

Group key agreement protocols are designed to provide a group of parties securely communicating over a public network with a session key. The mobile computing architecture is asymmetric in the sense of computational capabilities of participants. That is, the protocol participants consist of the stationary server(application servers) with sufficient computational Power and a cluster of mobile devices(clients) with limited computational resources. It is desirable to minimize the amount of computation performed by each group member in a group involving low-power mobile devices such as smart cards or personal digital assistants(PDAs). Furthermore we are required to update the group key with low computational costs when the members need to be excluded from the group or multiple new members need to be brought into an existing group. In this paper, we propose a dynamic group key protocol which offers computational efficiency to the clients with low-power mobile devices. We compare the total communicative and computational costs of our protocol with others and prove its suity against a passive adversary in the random oracle model.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.62-72
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• 2007

Mobile Virtual Private Network (MVPN) provides VPN services without geographical restriction to mobile workers using mobile devices. Coexistence of Mobile IP (MIP) protocol for mobility and IPsec-based VPN technology are necessary in order to provide continuous VPN service to mobile users. However, Problems like registration failure or frequent IPsec tunnel re-negotiation occur when IPsec-based VPN Gateway (GW) and MIP are used together. In order to solve these problems, IETF proposes a mechanism which uses external home agent (x-HA) located external to the corporate VPN GW. In addition, based on the IETF proposal, a mechanism that assigns x-HA dynamically in the networks where MN is currently located was also proposed with the purpose to reduce handover latency as well as end-to-end delay. However, this mechanism has problems such as exposure of a session key for dynamic Mobility Security Association (MSA) or a long latency in case of the handover between different networks. In this paper, we propose a new MVPN protocol in order to minimize handover latency, enhance the security in key exchange, and to reduce data losses cause by handover. Through a course of simulation, the performance of proposed protocol is compared with the existing mechanism.