• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.3-11
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• 2009

Forward secrecy in an e-mail system means that the compromising of the long-term secret keys of the mail users and mail servers does not affect the confidentiality of the previous e-mail messages. Previous forward-secure e-mail protocols used the certified public keys of the users and thus needed PKI(Public Key Infrastructure). In this paper, we propose a password-based authenticated e-mail protocol providing forward secrecy. The proposed protocol does not require certified public keys and is sufficiently efficient to be executed on resource-restricted mobile devices.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.987-997
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• 2012

A Point-of-Sales (POS) terminal manages the selling process by a salesperson accessible interface in real time. Using a POS system makes a business and customer management much more efficient. For these reasons, many store install POS terminal and used it. But it has many problem that stealing personal information by hacking and insider corruption. Because POS system stored payment information like that sales information, card valid period, and password. In this paper, I proposed software integrity verification technique in POS system based on White list. This method can prevent accidents that personal information leak by hacking and POS system forge and falsification. This proposed method provides software integrity, so it can prevent inside and outside threats in advance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.347-355
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• 2012

A biometric hardware security module is a physical device that comes in the form of smartcard or some other USB type security token is composed with biometric sensor and microcontroller unit (MCU). These modules are designed to process key generation and electronic signature generation inside of the device (so that the security token can safely save and store confidential information, like the electronic signature generation key and the biometric sensing information). However, the existing model is not consistent that can be caused by the disclosure of an ID and password, which is used by the existing personal authentication technique based on the security token, and provide a high level of security and personal authentication techniques that can prevent any intentional misuse of a digital certificate. So, this paper presents a model that can provide high level of security by utilizing the biometric security token and Public Key Infrastructure efficiently, presenting a model for privacy preserving personal authentication that links the biometric security token and the digital certificate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.620-623
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• 2022

최근 이메일 해킹사고의 유형을 살펴보면 사회공학적인 기법을 활용한 피싱메일 공격이 대다수를 차지하고 있는 상황이다. 그중 사용자의 패스워드를 빼내기 위한 공격메일이 기존 첨부파일에 악성코드를 삽입해서 보내지는 방식보다 월등히 높아졌다고 할 수 있다. 이는 공격자가 이메일 내용에 관심이 높아진 것으로 이메일은 사용자의 성향, 직업, 라이프스타일 파악뿐만 아니라 해커가 원하는 중요자료가 저장되어 있을 가능성이 매우 높으며 또 다른 공격대상자를 선정할 수 있는 좋은 창구가 될 수 있을 것이기 때문이다. 만일 피싱메일에 노출되어 패스워드가 해커의 손에 넘어 갔다면 많은 보안대책이 무용지물이 된다. 많은 보안 전문가들은 패스워드를 8자리 이상으로 하되 영문대·소문자와 숫자 그리고 특수문자를 포함하고, 사이트별 규칙성이 없이 모두 다르게 설정해야 하며, 정기적으로 바꿔야 한다고 조언한다. 이러한 조언은 패스워드를 크랙할 경우 안전할 수 있지만 요즘처럼 한 개인이 100여개 이상의 사이트에 대한 패스워드를 관리해야 한다면 현실적으로 불가능한 조언이 되고 말 것이다. 이러한 상황에 2017년 6월 미국 국립표준기술연구소(NIST)에서 '특별 간행 800-63-3: 디지털 인증 가이드라인'을 발표하게 된다. 내용은 그동안 보안전문가들이 권고했던 내용과는 많은 차이가 있다. 오히려 자주 바꾸는 것이 문제가 될 수 있다는 내용이다. 자세한 내용은 본 논문에서 살펴보도록 한다. 우리는 스마트폰 등을 사용함으로써 2-Factor인증에 활용하고 있다. 스마트폰 인증의 대표적인 방법은 지문·얼굴인식 등 생체인증 방식을 사용한다. 패스워드 없이도 편리하고 안전하게 인증을 할 수 있다는 점이 장점이다. 이러한 상황에 FIDO라는 인증 프레임워크가 인기를 얻고 있다. FIDO(Fast IDentity Online)는 비밀번호의 문제점을 해결하기 위한 목적으로 FIDO 얼라이언스에 의해 제안된 사용자 인증 프레임워크다. 향후 FIDO로의 대체가 패스워드 문제의 대안이 될 수 있을 것이다. 이제는 패스워드 대신 생체인증 체계로 대체할 수 있는 시대가 되었다고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 패스워드의 문제점을 살펴보고 이를 대체할 수 있는 FIDO기반의 인증체계가 대안이 될 수 있는 근거를 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.67-75
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• 2023

In this paper, we analyze the problem of the user authentication scheme that provides dynamic ID in a multi-server environment proposed by Andola et al. and propose an improved authentication one to solve this problem. As a result of analyzing the authentication scheme of Andrea et al. in this paper, it is not safe for smart card loss attack, and this attack allows users to guess passwords, and eventually, the attacker was able to generate session key. This paper proposed an improved authentication scheme to solve these problems, and as a result of safety analysis, it was safe from various attacks such as smart card loss attack, password guess attack, and user impersonation attack. Also the improved authentication scheme not only provides a secure dynamic ID, but is also effective in terms of the computational complexity of the hash function. In addition, the improved authentication scheme does not significantly increase the amount of transmission, so it can be said to be an efficient authentication scheme in terms of transmission cost.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.81-92
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• 2022

The rapidly growing IoT market is expanding not only in general households but also in smart homes and smart cities. Among the major protocols used in IoT, ZigBee accounts for more than 90% of the smart home's door lock market and is mainly used in miniaturized sensor devices, so the safety of the protocol is very important. However, the device using Zig Bee is not satisfied with the omnidirectional safety because it uses a fixed key during the authentication process that connects to the network, and it has not been resolved in the recently developed ZigBee 3.0. This paper proposes a design method that provides omnidirectional safety to the ZigBee authentication protocol and can be quickly applied to existing protocols. The proposed improved ZigBee authentication protocol analyzed and applied the recently developed OWE protocol to apply ECDH, which has low computational volume and provides omnidirectional safety in IoT. Based on this, it provides the safety of the ZigBee authentication protocol, and it is expected that it will be able to provide user convenience as it does not require a separate certificate or password input.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.129-135
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• 2019

Recently, studies have been conducted to improve the m-commerce process in the NFC-based mobile environment and the increase of the number of smart phones built in NFC. Since authentication is important in mobile electronic payment, FIDO(Fast IDentity Online) and 2 Factor electronic payment system are applied. In addition, block-chains using distributed raw materials have emerged as a representative technology of the fourth industry. In this study, for the mobile gallery auction of the traders using NFC embedded terminal (smartphone) in a small gallery auction in which an unspecified minority participates, password-based authentication and biometric authentication technology (fingerprint) were applied to record transaction details and ownership transfer of the auction participants in electronic payment. And, for the cost reduction and data integrity related to gallery auction, the private distributed director block chain was constructed and used. In addition, domestic and foreign cases applying block chain in the auction field were investigated and compared. In the future, the study will also study the implementation of block chain networks and smart contract and the integration of block chain and artificial intelligence to apply the proposed method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.8B
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• pp.730-737
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• 2003

In this paper, we present an efficient authentication proxy for IEEE 802.1x systems based on the port-based access control mechanism. An IEEE 802.1x system consists of PC supplicants, a bridge with authentication client functions, and an authentication server. For the network security and user authentication purposes, a supplicant who wants to access Internet should be authorized to access the bridge port using the Extended Authentication Protocol (EAP) over LAN. The frame of EAP over LAN is then relayed to the authentication server by the bridge. After several transactions between the supplicant and the server via the bridge, the supplicant may be either authorized or not. Noting that the transactions between the relaying bridge and the server will be increased as the number of supplicants grows in public networks, we propose a scheme for reducing the transactions by employing an authentication proxy function at the bridge. The proxy is allowed to cache the supplicant's user ID and password during his first transaction with the server. For the next authentication procedure of the same supplicant, the proxy function of the bridge handles the authentication transactions using its cache on behalf of the authentication server. Since the main authentication server handles only the first authentication transaction of each supplicant, the processing load of the server can be reduced. Also, the authentication transaction delay experienced by a supplicant can be decreased compared with the conventional 802.1x system.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.55-62
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• 2023

Recent ransomware attacks employ various techniques and pathways, posing significant challenges in early detection and defense. Consequently, the scale of damage is continually growing. This paper introduces a machine learning-based approach for effective ransomware detection by focusing on file encryption and encryption patterns, which are pivotal functionalities utilized by ransomware. Ransomware is identified by analyzing password behavior and encryption patterns, making it possible to detect specific ransomware variants and new types of ransomware, thereby mitigating ransomware attacks effectively. The proposed machine learning-based encryption behavior detection technique extracts encryption and encryption pattern characteristics and trains them using a machine learning classifier. The final outcome is an ensemble of results from two classifiers. The classifier plays a key role in determining the presence or absence of ransomware, leading to enhanced accuracy. The proposed technique is implemented using the numpy, pandas, and Python's Scikit-Learn library. Evaluation indicators reveal an average accuracy of 94%, precision of 95%, recall rate of 93%, and an F1 score of 95%. These performance results validate the feasibility of ransomware detection through encryption behavior analysis, and further research is encouraged to enhance the technique for proactive ransomware detection.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.23-46
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• 2002

With explosively increasing digital contents, library and Information center should have a new role between knowledge providers and knowledge users as information brokering organization. Electronic transaction system should be required for performing this brokering service since economic value is added to information and knowledge in information society. The developments and changes around library are keeping up with increasing building digital library and digitalizing printed sources. With the rapidly changing circumstances, the Internet is currently witnessing an explosive growth. By serving as a virtual information resource. the Internet can dramatically change the way business is conducted and Information is provided. However because of features o( the Internet like openness and information sharing, it has fundamental vulnerabilities in security issues. For Instance, disclosure of private information and line eavesdropping such as password, banking account, transaction data on network and so on are primary obstruction factors to activation of digital contents delivery on network. For high network security and authentication, this paper looks at smart card technologies and proposes multi-authentication protocol based on smart card on open network, implements and analyzes it.