• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2006

Recently, Sun et el. proposed a three-party authenticated key exchange protocol using the public key of the server and the derived verifier from the Password of a user. This paper proposes a password-based three-party authenticated key exchange protocol using smartcards. Since the proposed protocol has very low computation cost by using XOR and hash function operation instead of the public key operation, and reduces the count of message transmission to 20% compared with the protocol of Sun et el., it can execute an effective authenticated key exchange. Furthermore, the proposed protocol is safe from password guessing attack by not saving passwords in the server, and it is also safe from server compromise attack because the server cannot know the shared session key between the two users.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.1759-1762
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• 2003

최근 키 분배 프로토콜과는 다르게 하드웨어에 암호키를 저장하여 사용하는 것과 달리, 사용자가 기억할 수 있는 길이의 패스워드(password)를 사용해 서버와의 인증과 키 교환을 동시에 수행하는 패스워드 기반 키 분배 프로토콜이 제안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 패스워드 기반의 키 분배 프로토콜 중 BPKA(Balanced Password-authenticated Key Agreement)에 속하는 DH-EKE(Diffie-Hellman Encrypted Key Exchange), PAK(Password-Authenticated Key exchange), SPEKE(Simple Password Exponential Key Exchange) 프로토콜을 비교 분석하고, 이를 바탕으로 기존의 BPKA 프로토콜에 비해 적은 연산량을 가지면서 사용자와 서버가 각기 다른 정보를 갖는 패스워드-검증자 기반 프로토콜을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 패스워드 기반 키 분배 프로토콜의 안전성 분석을 위해 Active Impersonation 과 Forward Secrecy, Off-line dictionary attack, Man-in-the -middle Attack 등의 공격모델을 적용하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.2 s.332
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• pp.33-38
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a password-based authenticated key exchange protocol which authenticates each other and shares a session key using only a small memorable password between a client and a server over an insecure channel. The proposed protocol allows an authenticated client to freely change a his/her own password. The protocol is also secure against various attacks and provides the perfect forward secrecy. Furthermore, it has good efficiency compared with the previously well-known password-based protocols with the same security requirements.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.179-187
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• 2004

Password authenticated key exchange protocols for the symmetric model are easier to design, analyze and are more efficient than ones for the asymmetric model, but they are most likely to be broken by server's compromise. Though the protocols with provable security for the asymmetric model such as PAK-X and SNAPI-X are introduced, they need large amount of computation compared with the standard Diffie-Hellman key exchange. We present a systematic and efficient way to transform password authenticated key exchange protocols for the symmetric model into protocols for the asymmetric model. Thus, an efficient protocol for the asymmetric model can be constructed by a systematic protocol with low computation.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.3
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• pp.277-286
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• 2004

Password-based mechanism is widely used methods for user authentication. Password-based mechanisms are using memorable passwords(weak ferrets), therefore Password-based mechanism are vulnerable to the password guessing attack. To overcome this problem, man password-based authenticated key exchange protocols have been proposed to resist password guessing attacks. Recently, Seo-Sweeny proposed password-based Simple Authenticated Key Agreement(SAKA) protocol. In this paper, first, we will examine the SAKA and authenticated key agreement protocols, and then we will show that the proposed simple authenticated key agreement protocols are still insecure against Advanced Modification Attack. And we propose a password-based Simple Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol secure against Advanced Modification Attack.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.3244-3260
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• 2013

A three-party password-based authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol allows two clients registered with a trusted server to generate a common cryptographic key from their individual passwords shared only with the server. A key requirement for three-party PAKE protocols is to prevent an adversary from mounting a dictionary attack. This requirement must be met even when the adversary is a malicious (registered) client who can set up normal protocol sessions with other clients. This work revisits three existing three-party PAKE protocols, namely, Guo et al.'s (2008) protocol, Huang's (2009) protocol, and Lee and Hwang's (2010) protocol, and demonstrates that these protocols are not secure against offline and/or (undetectable) online dictionary attacks in the presence of a malicious client. The offline dictionary attack we present against Guo et al.'s protocol also applies to other similar protocols including Lee and Hwang's protocol. We conclude with some suggestions on how to design a three-party PAKE protocol that is resistant against dictionary attacks.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1403-1408
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• 2008

A number of three party key exchange protocols using smart card in effort to reduce server side workload and two party password based key exchange authentication protocols has been proposed. In this paper, we introduce the survey and analysis on security vulnerability of smart card based three party authenticated key exchange protocols. Furthermore, we analyze Kwak et al's password based key exchange and authentication protocols which have shown security weakness such as Shim et al's off-line password guessing attack and propose the countermeasure to deter such attack.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.525-535
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• 2005

A password-based authenticated tripartite key exchange protocol based on A. Joux's protocol was proposed. By using encryption scheme with shared password, we can resolve man-in-the-middle attack and lack of authentication problems. We also suggested a scheme to avoid the offline dictionary attack to which symmetric encryption schemes are vulnerable. The proposed protocol does not require a trusted party which is required in certificate or identity based authentication schemes. Therefore in a ad hoc network which is difficult to install network infrastructure, the proposed protocol would be very useful. The proposed protocol is more efficient in computation aspect than any existing password-based authenticated tripartite key exchange protocols. When it is used as a base line protocol of tree based group key exchange protocol, the computational weak points of the proposed protocol are compensated.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.252-258
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new authenticated key exchange protocol in which client and sever can mutually authenticate and establish a session key over an insecure channel using only a human memorable password. The proposed protocol is based on Diffie-Hellman scheme and has many of desirable security attributes: It resists off-line dictionary attacks mounted by either Passive or active adversaries over network, allowing low-entropy Passwords to be used safely. It also offers perfect forward secrecy, which protects past sessions when passwords are compromised. In particular, the advantage of our scheme is that it is secure against an impersonation attack, even if a server's password file is exposed to an adversary. The proposed scheme here shows that it has better performance when compared to the previous notable password-based key exchange methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.77-82
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 ElGamal 암호 기반에 PAK(Password-Authenticated Key Exchange) 프로토콜을 적용하여, 새로운 패스워드-인증 키 분배 프로토콜을 제안하고자 한다. ElGamal 암호 기법에서 사용자와 서버의 공개키와 개인키로 미리 공유된 패스워드와 비밀 정보를 암호문으로 전송하고 복호함으로써 서버-클라이언트 상호 인증을 하고, 비밀 정보를 근거로 세션키를 나누어 갖는 것이 이 프로토콜의 목적이다. 또한 설계 시 패스워드-인증 키 교환 프로토콜에서의 보안 요구사항을 고려하여 패스워드 기반의 인증 키 분배 프로토콜에서 요구하는 보안 요구사항을 만족하고 있다.