• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.291-298
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• 2002

Mutual authentication is essential for key exchange protocols and password-based authentication scheme is used widely, which is convenient to users and executed on the cheap. Password-based protocol should be not only secure against attach but also efficient to reduce user's load. In this paper, we propose a new key exchange protocol, called OTP-EKE(One Time Password based Encrypted Key Exchange), to provide authentication and to share a session key between a server and a user. We choose a password-based scheme as a user authentication. Especially, we use a one-time-password verifier and server's public password to protect against attacks on server's directory. As for efficiency, we improve the performance by reducing the number of modular exponentiations and the number of rounds.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.97-104
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose Recoverable Password Based Key Exchange Protocol(RPKEP). RPKEP has user who has password, server which share the secret key information with user, and password recovery agency(PRA) which help to recover the user\`s password. Proposed protocol has some advantages that it is secure against off-line dictionary attack which is considered most important in password based key exchange protocol and suer\`s security is preserved even though user\`s secret information stored in the server is disclosed. By applying Chaum\`s blind signature scheme in the process of password recovery, even the PRA can\`t obtain any information about user\`s password.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.33-41
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• 2011

Although conventional text-based passwords are used as the most common authentication method, they have significant drawbacks such as guess attacks, dictionary attacks, key loggers, and shoulder-surfing. To address the vulnerabilities of traditional text-based passwords, graphical password schemes have been developed as possible alternative solutions, but they have a potential drawback that they are more vulnerable to shoulder-surfing than conventional text-based passwords. In this paper, we present a new Hangul password input method to prevent shoulder-surfing attacks. Our approach uses Hangul as a password, and it requires the users to locate their password in the given wheeling password grid instead of entering the password. Our approach makes it difficult for attackers to observe a user's password since the system shows the users' passwords with decoy characters as the noise on the screen. Also, we provide security analysis for random attacks, dictionary attacks, and shoulder-surfing attacks, and it shows that our password system is robust against these attacks.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.166-169
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• 2006

Almost all network systems provide an authentication mechanism based on user ID and password. In such system, it is easy to obtain the user password using a sniffer program with illegal eavesdropping. The one-time password and challenge-response method are useful authentication schemes that protect the user passwords against eavesdropping. In client/server environments, the one-time password scheme using time is especially useful because it solves the synchronization problem. In this paper, we present a new identification scheme: OPI(One Pass Identification). The security of OPI is based on the square root problem, and OPI is secure: against the well known attacks including pre-play attack, off-line dictionary attack and server comprise. A number of pass of OPI is one, and OPI processes the password and does not need the key. We think that OPI is excellent for the consuming time to verify the prover.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.139-150
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• 2009

Authentication and key exchange are fundamental for establishing secure communication channels over public insecure networks. Password-based protocols for authenticated key exchange are designed to work even when user authentication is done via the use of passwords drawn from a small known set of values. There have been many protocols proposed over the years for password authenticated key exchange in the three-party scenario, in which two clients attempt to establish a secret key interacting with one same authentication server. However, little has been done for password authenticated key exchange in the more general and realistic four-party setting, where two clients trying to establish a secret key are registered with different authentication servers. In fact, the recent protocol by Yeh and Sun seems to be the only password authenticated key exchange protocol in the four-party setting. But, the Yeh-Sun protocol adopts the so called "hybrid model", in which each client needs not only to remember a password shared with the server but also to store and manage the server's public key. In some sense, this hybrid approach obviates the reason for considering password authenticated protocols in the first place; it is difficult for humans to securely manage long cryptographic keys. In this work, we introduce a key agreement protocol and a key distribution protocol, respectively, that requires each client only to remember a password shared with its authentication server.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.173-181
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• 2011

User authentication and key exchange protocols are the most important cryptographic applications. For user authentication, most protocols are based on the users' secret passwords. However, protocols based on the users' secret passwords are vulnerable to the password guessing attack. In 1992, Bellovin and Merritt proposed an EKE(Encrypted Key Exchange) protocol for user authentication and key exchage that is secure against password guessing attack. After that, many enhanced and secure EKE protocols are proposed so far. In 2006, Lo pointed out that Yeh et al.'s password-based authenticated key exchange protocol has a security weakness and proposed an improved protocol. However, Cao and Lin showed that his protocol is also vulnerable to off-line password guessing attack. In this paper, we show his protocol is vulnerable to on-line password guessing attack using new attack method, and propose an improvement of password authenticated key exchange protocol for imbalanced wireless networks secure against password guessing attack.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.8
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• pp.1597-1605
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• 2015

Password authenticated key exchange (PAKE) is a protocol that a client stores its password to a server, authenticates itself using its password and shares a session key with the server. In multi-server PAKE, a client splits its password and stores them to several servers separately. Unless all the servers are compromised, client's password will not be disclosed in the multi-server setting. In attribute-based encryption (ABE), a sender encrypts a message M using a set of attributes and then a receiver decrypts it using the same set of attributes. In this paper, we introduce multi-server PAKE protocol that utilizes a set of attributes of ABE as a client's password. In the protocol, the client and servers do not need to create additional public/private key pairs because the password is used as a set of public keys. Also, the client and the servers exchange only one round-trip message per server. The protocol is secure against dictionary attacks. We prove our system is secure in a proposed threat model. Finally we show feasibility through evaluating the execution time of the protocol.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.27-43
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• 2005

EAP provides authentication for each entity based on IEEE Std 802.1x Wireless lAN and RADIUS/DIAMETER protocol, and it uses certificate, dual scheme(e.g., password and token) with the authentication method. The password-based authentication scheme for authenticated key exchange is the most widely-used user authentication method due to various advantages, such as human-memorable simplicity, convenience, mobility, A specific hardware device is also unnecessary, This paper discusses user authentication via public networks and proposes the Split Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange (SPAKE), which is ideal for both authenticating users and exchanging session keys when using a subsequent secure communication over untrusted network, And then we provides EAP authentication framework EAP-SPAKE by using it.

• 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.