• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.31-42
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• 2023

As computer performance is leveled upward, the use of IoT systems is gradually expanding. Although IoT systems are used in many fields, it is true that it is difficult to build a safe system due to performance limitations. To overcome these limitations, many researchers have proposed numerous protocols to improve security issues. Among them, Azrour et al. except. We proposed a new efficient and secure authentication protocol for remote healthcare systems in a cloud-based IoT environment, and claimed that the new protocol could solve the security vulnerabilities of the existing protocols and was more efficient. However, in this paper, through the security analysis of the remote healthcare system in the cloud-based IoT environment proposed by Azrour et al., the protocol of this system was found to be vulnerable to Masquerade attack, Lack of Perfect Forward Secrecy, Off-line password guessing attack, and Replay attack.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.67-74
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• 2023

In this paper, we analyze the authentication protocol for DRM proposed by Hussain et al. in 2022, and present an improved solution. Hussain et al. argued that their authentication protocol guarantees man-in-the-middle attack, replay attacks, and mutual authentication. However, as a result of analyzing Hussain et al.'s authentication protocol in this paper, Hussain et al.'s authentication protocol still has an insider attack problem, a problem with Yu et al.'s authentication protocol that they pointed out. For this reason, when an inside attacker acquires information on a mobile device, a user impersonation attack was also possible. In addition, there were problems with the user's lack of ID format verification and the problem of the secret key mismatch of the digital contents between the server and the user. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved solution to solve these problems. As a result of analysis in this paper, the improved solution is safe from various attacks such as smart card attack, insider attack, and password guessing attack and can safely authenticate users of DRM.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.93-101
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• 2023

In this paper, as a result of analyzing the TMIS authentication protocol using ECC and biometric information proposed by Chen-Chen in 2023, there were security problems such as user impersonation attack, man-in-the-middle attack, and user anonymity. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved authentication protocol that provides user anonymity to solve these problems. As a result of analyzing the security of the protocol proposed in this paper, it was analyzed to be secure for various attacks such as offline password guessing attack, user impersonation attack, smart-card loss attack, insider attack, perfect forward attack. It has also been shown to provided user privacy by guaranteeing user anonymity and untraceability, which must be guaranteed in TMIS. In addition, there was no significant increase in computational complexity, so the efficiency of execution time was achieved. Therefore, the proposed protocol in this paper is a suitable user authentication protocol for TMIS.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.4
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• pp.207-215
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• 2014

Password based authentication systems are most widely used for user convenience in web services. However such authentication systems are known to be vulnerable to various attacks such as password guessing attack, dictionary attack and key logging attack. Besides, many of the web systems just provide user authentication in a one-way fashion such that web clients cannot verify the authenticity of the web server to which they set access and give passwords. Therefore, it is too difficult to protect against DNS spoofing, phishing and pharming attacks. To cope with the security threats, web system adopts several enhanced schemes utilizing one time password (OTP) or long and strong passwords including special characters. However there are still practical issues. Users are required to buy OTP devices and strong passwords are less convenient to use. Above all, one-way authentication schemes generate several vulnerabilities. To solve the problems, we propose a multi-channel, multi-factor authentication scheme by utilizing QR-Code. The proposed scheme supports both user and server authentications mutually, thereby protecting against attacks such as phishing and pharming attacks. Also, the proposed scheme makes use of a portable smart device as a OTP generator so that the system is convenient and secure against traditional password attacks.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.691-694
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• 2013

최근 네트워크 기술의 급속한 발전과 함께 사람들은 인터넷을 통해 다양한 서비스를 이용할 수 있다. 이러한 인터넷 환경에서 이용되는 기존 패스워드 기반의 사용자 인증은 패스워드 테이블은 요구하게 되고 패스워드 테이블 노출로 발생할 수 있는 위협들이 존재한다. 원격 사용자 인증 방식은 원격 사용자 인증 방식은 사용자의 패스워드 테이블은 요구하지 않는 인증 방식으로 스마트카드를 이용한 원격 사용자 인증에 대한 다양한 연구들이 진행되었다. 하지만, 스마트카드를 이용한 원격 사용자 인증은 통신상의 위협뿐만이 아니라 스마트카드에 저장된 정보를 통해 패스워드 추측의 위협이 발생할 수 있다. 본 연구는 해시 기반의 검증 값을 이용하여 오프라인 상에서 스마트카드에 대한 패스워드 추측 공격으로부터 안전한 방식을 제안하였다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.231-237
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• 2012

In 2011, Das proposed an effective biometrics-based remote user authentication scheme using smart cards that can provide strong authentication and mutual authentication, while eliminating the security drawbacks of Li-Hwang's scheme. In this paper, we have shown that Das's scheme is still insecure against several attacks and does not provide mutual authentication. Also, we proposed the enhanced scheme to overcome these security weaknesses, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result of security analysis, the enhanced scheme is secure against user impersonation attack, server masquerading attack, off-line password guessing attack, and insider attack. And we can see that the enhanced scheme provides mutual authentication between the user and the server.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.1471-1481
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• 2016

As concern about IoT is increasing recently, various IoT services are being launched. Smart home is closely related to our daily life by combining IoT with user's residential space. Therefore, if an unauthorized user accesses a device inside a Smart home, it can cause more serious damage to user as it is related with daily lives. For instance executing the command allowing unauthenticated access for the internal locking device can be a real harm to user's property like a home invasion. To prevent this problem, this paper introduces 3PAKE Techniques, which provides authenticated Key exchange through Home gateway using Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange(PAKE).

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.101-108
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• 2021

In this paper, we analyze Shin's proposed dynamic ID-based user authentication scheme for TMIS(Telecare Medicine Information System), and Shin's authentication scheme is vulnerable to smart card loss attacks, allowing attackers to acquire user IDs, which enables user impersonation attack. In 2019, Shin's proposed authentication scheme attempted to generate a strong random number using ECC, claiming that it is safe to lose a smart card because it is impossible to calculate random number r'i due to the difficulty of the ECC algorithm without knowing random number ri. However, after analyzing Shin's authentication scheme in this paper, the use of transmission messages and smart cards makes it easy to calculate random numbers r'i, which also enables attackers to generate session keys. In addition, Shin's authentication scheme were analyzed to have significantly greater overhead than other authentication scheme, including vulnerabilities to safety analysis, the lack of a way to pass the server's ID to users, and the lack of biometric characteristics with slightly different templates.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.324-332
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• 2002

We design authentication protocols for wireless internet not using certificates but using passwords. The target protocols include WTLS and the certificate request protocol in the wireless PKI(Public Key Infrastructure). When a password based protocol is designed and implemented for authentication and key exchange, care mutt be taken of the short length and of the not-so-randomness of passwords. To frustrate the offline guessing attack that makes use of those weaknesses, our two protocols are dependent on the password based authentication protocol that has security proof. In this paper, how to design systematically the security protocols for authentication and key exchange using passwords is presented, and the methodology hopes to be useful in some other area that needs authentication using passwords.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.33-42
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• 2002

We present a systematic way to armor a zero-knowledge interactive proof based identification scheme that has badly chosen keys. Keys are sometimes mistakenly chosen to be weak(neither random nor long), and a weak key is often preferred to a strong key so that it might be easy for human to remember. Weak keys severely degrade the security of ZKIP based identification schemes. We show using off-line guessing attack how the weak key threats the security of ZlKIP based identification schemes. For the proper usage of ZKIP, we introduce a specialized form of ZKIP, which has a secret coin-tossing stage. Using the secret coin tossing, a secure framework is proposed for ZKIP based identification schemes with weak key in the ideal cipher model. The framework is very useful in password based authentication and key exchange protocol