• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• summer
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• pp.152-154
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• 2004

In 2004, Ku-Chen proposed an improvement to Chien et al.'s scheme to prevent from some weaknesses. Lee et al. also proposed an improvement to Chien et al.'s scheme to prevent from parallel session attack. This paper, however, will demonstrate that Ku-Chen's scheme is still vulnerable to the parallel session attack and Lee et al.'s scheme is also vulnerable to masquerading server attack.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.9-19
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• 2011

Secure and efficient authentication schemes over insecure networks have been a very important issue with the rapid development of networking technologies. Wang et al. proposed a remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. However, recently, Chen et al. pointed out that their scheme is vulnerable to the impersonation attack and the parallel session attack, and they proposed an enhanced authentication scheme. Chen et al. claimed that their scheme is secure against the various attacks. However, we have found that their scheme cannot resist the parallel attack and the stolen smart card attack. Therefore, in this paper, we show the security flaws in Chen et al.'s scheme and propose an improved remote user authentication scheme using tamper-resistant smart cards to solve the problem of Chen et al.'s scheme. We also analyze our scheme in terms of security and performance.

• 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.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.704-712
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• 2010

Authentication is an important service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for an unattended environment. Recently, Das proposed a hash-based authentication protocol for WSNs, which provides more security against the masquerade, stolen-verifier, replay, and guessing attacks and avoids the threat which comes with having many logged-in users with the same login-id. In this paper, we point out one security weakness of Das' protocol in mutual authentication for WSN's preservation between users, gateway-node, and sensor nodes. To remedy the problem, this paper provides a secrecy improvement over Das' protocol to ensure that a legal user can exercise a WSN in an insecure environment. Furthermore, by presenting the comparisons of security, computation and communication costs, and performances with the related protocols, the proposed protocol is shown to be suitable for higher security WSNs.