• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.19B no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2012

Many audio watermarking researches which have been adapted to authenticate contents can not recover the original media after watermark removal. Therefore, reversible watermarking can be regarded as an effective method to ensure the integrity of audio data in the applications requiring high-confidential audio contents. Reversible watermarking inserts watermark into digital media in such a way that perceptual transparency is preserved, which enables the restoration of the original media from the watermarked one without any loss of media quality. This paper presents a new interval-based audio integrity authentication algorithm which can detect malicious tampering. To provide complete reversibility, we used differential histogram-based reversible watermarking. To authenticate audio in parts, not the entire audio at once, the proposed algorithm processes audio by dividing into intervals and the confirmation of the authentication is carried out in each interval. Through experiments using multiple kinds of test data, we prove that the presented algorithm provides over 99% authenticating rate, complete reversibility, and higher perceptual quality, while maintaining the induced-distortion low.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.71-78
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• 2009

In RFID system, the communicated data can be easily eavesdropped and tampered with by an attacker because the communication between the reader and the tag is performed in an insecure channel. Therefore, authentication is an important role in RFID applications for providing security and privacy. In 2006, Lee, Asano and Kim proposed an RFID mutual authentication protocol (the LAK protocol) which utilizes a hash function and synchronized secret information. However, Cao and Shen showed that the LAK protocol is vulnerable to replay attack, and therefore an adversary can impersonate the tag. This paper proposes a new simple two-round RFID mutual authentication (TRMA) protocol based on secure one-way hash function. As a result, the proposed TRMA protocol not only can prevent various attacks and but also provides communication efficiency since they mutually authenticate by performing two-round between RFID tag and RFID reader.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.3-8
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• 2015

Most mobile cloud computing system use public key cryptography to provide data security and mutual authentication. A variant of traditional public key technologies called Identity-Based Cryptography(IBC) has recently received considerable attention. The certificate-free approach of IBC may well match the dynamic qualities of cloud environment. But, there is a need for a lightweight secure framework that provides security with minimum processing overhead on mobile devices. In this paper, we propose to use hierarchical ID-Based Encryption in mobile cloud computing. It is suitable for a mobile network since it can reduce the workload of root Public Key Generators by delegating the privilege of user authentication and private key generation. The Identity-Based Encryption and Identity-Based Signature are also proposed and an ID-Based Authentication scheme is presented to secure data processing. The proposed scheme is designed by one-way hash functions and XOR operations, thus has low computation costs for mobile users.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.9-21
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• 2010

Recently, famous online shopping websites were hit by hacking attack, and many users' personal information such as ID, password, account number, personal number, credit card number etc. were compromised. Hackers are continuing to attack online shopping websites, and the number of victims of these hacking is increasing. Especially, the exposure of credit card numbers is dangerous, because hackers maliciously use disclosed card numbers to gain money. In 2007 Financial Cryptography Conference, Ian Molly et al. firstly proposed dynamic card number generator, but it doesn't meet reuse resistant. In this paper, we analyzed security weaknesses of Ian Molly's scheme, and we proposed a new one-time virtual card number generator using a mobile device which meets security requirements of one-time virtual card numbers. Then, we propose one-time credit card number generation and transaction protocol using Integrated Authentication Center for user convenience and security enhancement.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.9
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• pp.1175-1184
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• 2015

Recently, there has been an explosive increase in the volume of multimedia data that is available as a result of the development of multimedia technologies. More and more data is becoming available on a variety of web sites, and it has become increasingly cost prohibitive to have a single data server store and process multimedia files locally. Therefore, many service providers have been likely to outsource data to cloud storage to reduce costs. Such behavior raises one serious concern: how can data users be authenticated in a secure and efficient way? The most widely used password-based authentication methods suffer from numerous disadvantages in terms of security. Multi-factor authentication protocols based on a variety of communication channels, such as SMS, biometric, or hardware tokens, may improve security but inevitably reduce usability. To this end, we present a data block-based authentication scheme that is secure and guarantees usability in such a manner where users do nothing more than enter a password. In addition, the proposed scheme can be effectively used to revoke user rights. To the best of our knowledge, our scheme is the first data block-based authentication scheme for outsourced data that is proven to be secure without degradation in usability. An experiment was conducted using the Amazon EC2 cloud service, and the results show that the proposed scheme guarantees a nearly constant time for user authentication.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.121-127
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• 2006

Recently, Chang et at.$^[9]$ proposed a new password-based key agreement protocol and a password change protocol to improve the efficiency in the password-based authenticated key agreement protocol proposed by Yeh et at.$^[8]$. However, Wang et al.$^[10]$ showed that their protected password change protocol is not secure under the denial of service attack and the dictionary attack This paper proposes an improved password change protocol to solve this problems in the Chang et al's protocol. In the proposed protocol, the format of communication messages is modified not to have any clue for the guessing of the password and verifying of the guessed password. The proposed protocol supports the advantages in the previous password-based protocols and solves the problems in them effectively.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.103-111
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• 2009

IEEE 802.16e(Wibro) standard, providing robust mobile realtime data transmission technology, requires of faster and smooth execution of security mechanisms, such as key distribution and user authentications, during base station hopping. In particular, key management mechanisms such as redistribution and regeneration have an impact on digital contents transmission and realtime data transmission, not only in 802.16e environment, but also in typical transmission environment as well. This paper presents traffic management mechanisms designed to realtime digital contents (such as IPTV) transmission efficiency and increase the QoE by utilizing OKTEK methodology.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.103-114
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• 2008

Single Sign-On is an authentication scheme that enables a user to authenticate once and then to access to the resources of multiple software systems without re-authentication. As web services are being integrated into a single groupware, more web sites are adopting for user convenience. However, these Single Sign-On services are very dependent upon the cookies and thus, simple eavesdropping enables attackers to hiject the user's session. Even worse, the attacker who hijacked one session can move to another site through the Single Sign-On. In this paper, we show the vulnerabilities of the top ranked sites regarding this point of view and also propose a way to protect a user's session.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.841-849
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• 2012

Cloud computing that provides IT service and computer resource based on internet is now getting attention. However, the encrypted data can be exposed because it is saved in cloud server, even though it is saved as an encrypted data. In this paper, user certification protocol is proposed to prevent from illegally using of secret data by others while user who locates different physical position is providing secret data safely. The proposed protocol uses one way hash function and XOR calculation to get user's certification information which is in server when any user approaches to particular server remotely. Also it solves user security problem of cloud.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.286-288
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• 2004

무선 통신의 발달로 언제 어디서나 누구와도 통신이 자유롭게 되었다 하지만, 무선 통신을 사용하게 됨으로써 통신 사용자와 액세스 포인트, 액세스 포인트와 서버(Server)가 통신을 할 경우 유선 네트워크와는 다른 인증 방식이 요구되었다. 무선 네트워크에서 사용자 인증을 위해 801.x EAP, SSID, CHAP 및 WEP를 이용한 다양한 인증 방식이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자를 안전하게 인증할 수 있는 효율적인 인증 방법을 제안한다. 절기서는 기존의 PPP CHAP을 수정하여 인증 서버와 사용자간의 상호 인증을 할 수 있도록 했다. 또한 강한 일-방향 해시 함수(Strength One-Way Hash Function)을 사용하여 생성된 결과 값을 일회용 패스워드(One Time Password:OTP)로 사용하여 재공격(Reply Attack)을 방지했다.