• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.2844-2861
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• 2023

Internet is the most prevailing word being used nowadays. Over the years, people are becoming more dependent on the internet as it makes their job easier. This became a part of everyone's life as a means of communication in almost every area like financial transactions, education, and personal-health operations. A lot of data is being converted to digital and made online. Many researchers have proposed different authentication factors - biometric and/or non-biometric authentication factors - as the first line of defense to secure online data. Among all those factors, passwords and passphrases are being used by many users around the world. However, the usability of these factors is low. Also, the passwords are easily susceptible to brute force and dictionary attacks. This paper proposes the generation of a novel passcode from the hybrid authentication factor - sound. The proposed passcode is evaluated for its strength to resist brute-force and dictionary attacks using the Shannon entropy and Passcode (or password) entropy formulae. Also, the passcode is evaluated for its usability. The entropy value of the proposed is 658.2. This is higher than that of other authentication factors. Like, for a 6-digit pin - the entropy value was 13.2, 101.4 for Password with Passphrase combined with Keystroke dynamics and 193 for fingerprint, and 30 for voice biometrics. The proposed novel passcode is far much better than other authentication factors when compared with their corresponding strength and usability values.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.738-746
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose an indirect PIN entry method that provides enhanced security against smudge, recording, and thermal attacks. Conventional mobile PIN entry methods use on-screen numeric keypad for both use of display and entry. Thus These methods are vulnerable to aforementioned attacks. In our method, passcode is same as that of the conventional PIN entry methods, and that is user-friendly way for mobile device users. Therefore, our method does not reduce user convenience which is one of the advantages of the conventional methods. In addition, our method is not a method of directly touching the on-screen numeric keypad for entering passcode like the conventional PIN methods. Unlike the conventional methods, our method uses an indirect passcode entry method that applied a passcode indicating key. According to the performance comparison result, proposed method provides user convenience similar to the conventional methods, and also provides a higher level of security and safety against recording, smudge, and thermal attacks than the conventional methods.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2017

지문은 사람마다 고유하며 디지털 데이터로 표현할 수 있는 생체 정보이다. 지문은 사람 몸의 일부이기 때문에, 지문인식은 패스워드나 신분증을 이용한 방법보다 사용하기 편리하다. 더불어, 최근 보급되고 있는 스마트폰은 카메라 및 지문인식 센서가 내장되어 있어서, 바이오메트릭 인증에 대한 사용자의 수요가 증가하고 있다. 하지만 지문은 쉽게 복제가 가능하고 한 번 도용되면 해당 지문을 다시 사용할 수 없는 단점이 있다. 따라서, 바이오메트릭 데이터는 원본을 변형하여 등록 및 인증해야 한다. 기존의 패스코드 입력 방식은 지문인식 센서 외에 별도의 입력 모듈이 필요하기 때문에 경제성과 사용성이 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 사용성과 경제성을 고려한 취소 가능한 바이오메트릭 인증 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 인증 기법은 취소 가능한 바이오메트릭 템플릿 생성, 바이오메트릭 템플릿 등록 그리고 사용자 인증 프로토콜로 구성되며, 사용된 지문 개수와 스캔 타임에 따라서 보안레벨을 조절할 수 있다. 더불어, 제안한 방법이 전사적 공격과 능동적 공격으로부터 안전함을 분석하였다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2015년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.598-601
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• 2015

FIDO(Fast IDentity Online)는 인증 프로토콜과 인증수단을 분리하여 지문, 홍채, 스마트카드 등 다양한 인증 기술을 쉽게 수용할 수 있도록 하여 인증강도를 높이면서 사용자의 편리성도 제고할 수 있는 기술로 기존 패스워드 인증 방식의 문제를 해결하며 최근 모바일 결제 등으로 그 활용의 폭이 급격히 높아지고 있다. 본 논문은 FIDO 1.0을 준용하는 패스코드 인증장치의 설계 및 구현에 대하여 기술한다. 본 인증장치는 2016년 4월에 개최된 FIDO UAF 1.0 상호운용성(IOP) 테스트를 통과한 FIDO Certified 인증 장치로 향후 모바일 결제, 온라인 서비스 로그인 등 다양한 분야에서 활용될 것으로 예상된다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.81-90
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• 2023

Cloud computing is an emerging business model popularized during the last few years by the IT industry. Providing "Everything as a Service" has shifted many organizations to choose cloud-based services. However, some companies still fear shifting their data to the cloud due to issues related to the security and privacy. The paper suggests a novel Trust based Mutual Authentication Mechanism using Secret P-box based Mutual Authentication Mechanism (TbMAM-SPb) on the criticality of information. It uses a particular passcodes from one of the secret P-box to act as challenge to one party. The response is another passcode from other P-box. The mechanism is designed in a way that the response given by a party to a challenge is itself a new challenge for the other party. Access to data is provided after ensuring certain number of correct challenge-responses. The complexity can be dynamically updated on basis of criticality of the information and trust factor between the two parties. The communication is encrypted and time-stamped to avoid interceptions and reuse. Overall, it is good authentication mechanism without the use of expensive devices and participation of a trusted third party.