• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.418-428
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• 2012

With the requirement for providing multiple levels of access control for group members, many group key management schemes designed for hierarchical access control have been put forward. However, most of these schemes focus on the efficiency of group key establishment and rekeying in centralized environments. This paper proposes an integrated group key agreement (IGK) scheme for contributory environments. The IGK scheme employs the integrated key graph to remove key redundancies existing in single key trees, and reduces key establishment and rekeying time while providing hierarchical access control. Performance analyses and simulations conducted with respect to computation and communication overheads indicate that our proposed IGK scheme is more efficient than the independent group key agreement scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.811-829
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• 2015

One-way authenticated key agreement protocols, aiming at solving the problems to establish secure communications over public insecure networks, can achieve one-way authentication of communicating entities for giving a specific user strong anonymity and confidentiality of transmitted data. Public Key Infrastructure can design one-way authenticated key agreement protocols, but it will consume a large amount of computation. Because one-way authenticated key agreement protocols mainly concern on authentication and key agreement, we adopt multi-server architecture to realize these goals. About multi-server architecture, which allow the user to register at the registration center (RC) once and can access all the permitted services provided by the eligible servers. The combination of above-mentioned ideas can lead to a high-practical scheme in the universal client/server architecture. Based on these motivations, the paper firstly proposed a new one-way authenticated key agreement scheme based on multi-server architecture. Compared with the related literatures recently, our proposed scheme can not only own high efficiency and unique functionality, but is also robust to various attacks and achieves perfect forward secrecy. Finally, we give the security proof and the efficiency analysis of our proposed scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권12호
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• pp.2392-2402
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• 2011

In order to protect some important information communicated through an insecure network, a common hidden key must be used. One can produce the common hidden key using key agreement protocols; and this helps to have high security in modern data networks. Today, the designers of public key cryptography protocols try to set the public identity of a system's users (like their email addresses) as their public key. This not only makes a cryptographic protocol more efficient but also decreases its cost. These protocols are called "identity-based". In this article, an identity-based multiple key agreement scheme will be presented; this scheme uses the challenge-response method to do the verification. While the number of random values produced in our scheme is the same as other schemes, the number of keys generated in this scheme is much more than what many other key agreement schemes produce,. Therefore, we will have less computational complexities campered with other schems. In this paper, we consider the security of our scheme and consequently, we will show that it satisfies many security conditions such as strong security.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.133-142
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• 2006

복수키 동의 프로토콜의 목적은 단일키 동의 프로토콜의 거듭 실행에 비하여 계산량과 통신량 면에서 효율성을 얻기 위함이다. 최근에 ID 기반의 3자 복수키 동의 프로토콜들이 제안되었지만, unknown key-share 공격 혹은 impersonation 공격 등에 대한 취약함이 발견되어 모든 종류의 공격에 대하여 안전하면서 효율적인 ID 기반 인증된 3자 키 동의 프로토콜의 설계는 아직 미지의 문제로 남아있다. 본 논문에서는 단일키 동의 프로토콜과 키 유도함수를 결합한 복수키 동의 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 복수키 동의 프로토콜에 비하여 계산적 효율성을 증가시킬 수 있을 뿐 아니라, 안전성이 증명된 단일키 동의 프로토콜과 키 유도함수를 사용함으로써 안전성을 보장받을 수 있다.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.169-179
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose multiparty key agreement protocols by generalizing the Blom's scheme based on 2 variable polynomials. Especially we develop three party and four party key agreement schemes with security. The advantage of the new schemes is to have small demands on storage space.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.30 No.1 (A)
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• pp.518-520
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• 2003

This paper proposes a new session key agreement scheme which is based on Station-to-station protocol, or STS shortly. We extend key agreement model of STS, to take into account smart cards. Besides, we modify STS to withstand message replaying attack. Security analysis shows our scheme is still secure.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.4025-4042
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• 2017

Session initiation protocol (SIP) is a kind of powerful and common protocols applied for the voice over internet protocol. The security and efficiency are two urgent requirements and admired properties of SIP. Recently, Hamed et al. proposed an efficient authentication and key agreement scheme for SIP. However, we demonstrate that Hamed et al.'s scheme is vulnerable to de-synchronization attack and cannot provide anonymity for users. Furthermore, we propose an improved and efficient authentication and key agreement scheme by using elliptic curve cryptosystem. Besides, we prove that the proposed scheme is provably secure by using secure formal proof based on Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic. The comparison with the relevant schemes shows that our proposed scheme has lower computation costs and can provide stronger security.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.119-131
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• 2013

With the explosive growth of computer networks, many remote service providing servers and multi-server network architecture are provided and it is extremely inconvenient for users to remember numerous different identities and passwords. Therefore, it is important to provide a mechanism for a remote user to use single identity and password to access multi-server network architecture without repetitive registration and various multi-server authentication schemes have been proposed in recent years. Recently, Tsaur et al. proposed an efficient and secure smart card based user authentication and key agreement scheme for multi-server environments. They claimed that their scheme satisfies all of the requirements needed for achieving secure password authentication in multi-server environments and gives the formal proof on the execution of the proposed authenticated key agreement scheme. However, we find that Tsaur et al.'s scheme is still vulnerable to impersonation attack and many logged-in users' attack. We propose an extended scheme that not only removes the aforementioned weaknesses on their scheme but also achieves user anonymity for hiding login user's real identity. Compared with other previous related schemes, our proposed scheme keeps the efficiency and security and is more suitable for the practical applications.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.2769-2792
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an authenticated key agreement scheme, TinyIBAK, based on the identity-based cryptography and bilinear paring, for large scale sensor networks. We prove the security of our proposal in the random oracle model. According to the formal security validation using AVISPA, the proposed scheme is strongly secure against the passive and active attacks, such as replay, man-in-the middle and node compromise attacks, etc. We implemented our proposal for TinyOS-2.1, analyzed the memory occupation, and evaluated the time and energy performance on the MICAz motes using the Avrora toolkits. Moreover, we deployed our proposal within the TOSSIM simulation framework, and investigated the effect of node density on the performance of our scheme. Experimental results indicate that our proposal consumes an acceptable amount of resources, and is feasible for infrequent key distribution and rekeying in large scale sensor networks. Compared with other ID-based key agreement approaches, TinyIBAK is much more efficient or comparable in performance but provides rekeying. Compared with the traditional key pre-distribution schemes, TinyIBAK achieves significant improvements in terms of security strength, key connectivity, scalability, communication and storage overhead, and enables efficient secure rekeying.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제12C권7호
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• pp.949-958
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• 2005

이 논문에서 우리는 여러 사용자들이 동시에 세션키를 교환하는 키 교환 스킴에 대해서 연구한다. 이런 상황은 사용자들을 그래프 노드들로 표현하고 두 사용자간에 키를 만들어야 하는 상황을 에지로 표현하는 키 그래프에 의해서 묘사될 수 있다. 우리는 키 그래프에 있는 모든 에지들을 위한 세션키들을 하나의 세션에서 동시에 만드는 키 교환 스킴을 설계한다. 키 그래프를 위한 키 교환은 양자간 키 교환의 확장판이라고 할 수 있다. 우리는 양자간 키 교환 안전성 모델을 확장해서 키 그래프를 위한 키 교환 안전성 모델을 제안한다. 우리는 란수 직 산용 테크닉을 사용해서 두개의 키 그래프를 위한 키 교환 스킴을 설계하며 안전성을 증명한다. 우리가 제안하는 스킴들의 안전성은 decisional Diffie-Hellman 가정에 의존한다. 첫 번째 스킴은 일 라운드 키 교환 프로토콜이며 키 독립성을 보장한다. 두 번째 스킴은 일 라운드이며 전방위 안전성을 보장한다. 제안하는 두 가지 스킴들의 안전성은 모두 표준 모델에서 증명된다. 제안되는 프로토콜들은 최초의 다중 키 교환 프로토콜이며, 단순히 양자간 키 교환 프로토콜들을 반복 사용해서 키들을 만드는 것보다 훨씬 효율적이다. 예로서 한 사용자가 n명의 다른 사용자와 키를 만든다고 가정하자. 가장 단순한 프로토콜은 각각의 사용자들과의 키 교환을 위해서 양자간 키 교환을 사용하는 것으로서, 이 때는 계산량과 메시지 전송량이 n에 비례하게 된다. 제안되는 프로토콜들은 n개의 키를 만드는데 있어서 계산량은 n에 비례하나 전송되는 메시지의 양은 교환되는 키들의 수에 상관없이 일정하다.