• 한국정보기술학회 영문논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.79-87
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• 2018

The current PC user authentication uses character password based on user's knowledge. However, this can easily be exploited by password cracking or key-logging programs. In addition, the use of a difficult password and the periodic change of the password make it easy for the user to mistake exposing the password around the PC because it is difficult for the user to remember the password. In order to overcome this, we propose user gesture recognition and challenge-response authentication. We apply user's hand gesture instead of character password. In the challenge-response method, authentication is performed in the form of responding to a quiz, rather than using the same password every time. To apply the hand gesture to challenge-response authentication, the gesture is recognized and symbolized to be used in the quiz response. So we show that this method can be applied to PC user authentication.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2014

Password-based authentication using smart card provides two factor authentications, namely a successful login requires the client to have a valid smart card and a correct password. While it provides stronger security guarantees than only password authentication, it could also fail if both authentication factors are compromised ((1) the user's smart card was stolen and (2) the user's password was exposed). In this case, there is no way to prevent the adversary from impersonating the user. Now, the new technology of biometrics is becoming a popular method for designing a more secure authentication scheme. In terms of physiological and behavior human characteristics, biometric information is used as a form of authentication factor. Biometric information, such as fingerprints, faces, voice, irises, hand geometry, and palmprints can be used to verify their identities. In this article, we review the biometric-based authentication scheme by Cheng et al. and provide a security analysis on the scheme. Our analysis shows that Cheng et al.'s scheme does not guarantee any kind of authentication, either server-to-user authentication or user-to-server authentication. The contribution of the current work is to demonstrate these by mounting two attacks, a server impersonation attack and a user impersonation attack, on Cheng et al.'s scheme. In addition, we propose the enhanced authentication scheme that eliminates the security vulnerabilities of Cheng et al.'s scheme.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.637-640
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• 2003

Authentication between Server and Client is necessary in most of Internet Service because of increasing of using of Internet. Unix-based Server upgraded security of user authentication using "Shadow Password" instead of "crypt" function. But "Shadow Password" most use same authentication method about all services. But we individually can set user authentication method using PAM(Pluggable Authentication Module). This paper will propose user authentication system using Linux-PAM that use SMART CARD as authentication token.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2016

Recently, many biometrics-based user authentication schemes for telecare medicine information systems (TMIS) have been proposed to improve the security problems in user authentication system. In 2014, Mishra et al. proposed an improvement of Awasthi-Srivastava's biometric based authentication for TMIS which is secure against the various attacks and provide mutual authentication, efficient password change. In this paper, we discuss the security of Mishra et al.'s authentication scheme, and we have shown that Mishra et al.'s authentication scheme is still insecure against the various attacks. Also, we proposed the improved scheme to remove these security problems of Mishra et al.'s authentication scheme, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result, we can see that the improved biometric based authentication scheme is secure against the insider attack, the password guessing attack, the user impersonation attack, the server masquerading attack and provides mutual authentication between the user and the telecare system.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.280-289
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• 2016

User authentication is an important issue on computer network systems. Most of the current computer network systems use the ID-password string match as the primary user authentication method. However, in password-based authentication, whoever acquires the password of a valid user can access the system without any restrictions. In this paper, we present a keystroke dynamics-based user authentication to resolve limitations of the password-based authentication. Since most previous studies employed a fixed-length text as an input data, we aims at enhancing the authentication performance by combining four different variable creation methods from a variable-length free text as an input data. As authentication algorithms, four one-class classifiers are employed. We verify the proposed approach through an experiment based on actual keystroke data collected from 100 participants who provided more than 17,000 keystrokes for both Korean and English. The experimental results show that our proposed method significantly improve the authentication performance compared to the existing approaches.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2018

Lamport firstly suggested password base authentication scheme and then, similar authentication schemes have been studied. Due to the development of Internet network technology, remote user authentication using smart card has been studied. Li et al. analyzed authentication scheme of Chen et al. and then, Li et al. found out the security weakness of Chen et al.'s scheme such forward secrecy and the wrong password login problem, and proposed an a new smart card based user password authentication scheme. But Liu et al. found out that Li et al.'s scheme still had security problems such an insider attack and man-in-the-middle attack and then Liu et al. proposed an efficient and secure smart card based password authentication scheme. This paper analyzed Liu et al.'s authentication and found out that Liu et al.'s authentication has security weakness such as no perfect forward secrecy, off-line password guessing attack, smart-card loss attack, and no anonymity. And then, this paper proposed security enhanced efficient smart card based password authentication scheme using fuzzy extraction technology.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.27-43
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• 2005

EAP(Extenwsible Authentication Protocol)는 IEEE Std 802.1x 무선 근거리 통신망 및 RADIUS/DIAMETER 프로토콜을 기반으로 각 개체에 대한 인증을 제공하며 인증의 수단으로 인증서, 패스워드, 이중방식(패스워드 및 토큰)등을 이용한다. 인증된 키교환을 위한 패스워드 기반 인증 방식은 특정 하드웨어 장치 없이도 암기하기 쉬운 간편성, 편리성, 이동성으로 인해 상당히 많이 이용되는 사용자 인증 방식이다. 본 논문에서는 개방형 네트워크를 통해서도 사용자를 인증하고 안전한 암호통신용 세션키 교환에 적합한 패스워드 기반 인증된 키교환 프로토콜 SPAKE(Split Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange)을 제안한다. 더불어 제안된 SPAKE를 토대로 안전한 EAP 인증 프레임워크 EAP-SPAKE를 제시한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제2권11호
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• pp.503-510
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• 2013

최근 네트워크 기술의 급속한 발전과 함께 사람들은 인터넷을 통해 다양한 서비스를 이용할 수 있게 되었다. 하지만 인터넷 환경에서 많이 사용되는 패스워드 기반의 사용자 인증 방식은 패스워드 테이블이 요구되기 때문에 내부자에 의한 패스워드 테이블 노출 등과 같은 보안 위협들이 존재한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 사용자의 패스워드 테이블이 요구되지 않는 인증 방법으로 원격 사용자 인증 방식이 제안되었다. 그 중 스마트카드를 이용한 원격 사용자 인증 방식은 계산 비용이나 효율성, 안전성을 개선하기 위한 다양한 방법들이 제안되었지만 위장 공격 위협과 스마트카드에 저장된 정보를 이용한 패스워드 추측 공격 위협이 존재한다. 본 논문은 기존 방식들의 취약점을 분석하고 기존 사용자 아이디/패스워드기반의 스마트카드 아이디와 패스워드를 생성하여 위장 공격과 패스워드 추측 공격에 대해 안전한 원격 사용자 인증 방식을 제안하였다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2018

User authentication scheme is a method for controlling unauthorized users' access to securely share the services and resources provided by the server and for verifying users with access rights. Initial user authentication scheme was based on passwords. Nowadays, various authentication schemes such as ID based, smart-card based, and attribute based are being researched. The study of Lee et al. suggested a user authentication scheme that provides forward secrecy and protects anonymity of users. However, it is vulnerable to attacks by outsiders and attackers who have acquired smart-cards. In this paper, we propose a modified smart-card authentication scheme to complement the weakness of the previous studies. The proposed user authentication scheme provides the security for the ID guessing attack and the password guessing attacks of the attacker who obtained the login request message and the user's smart-card.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.346-350
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• 2007

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. It is the stability that is based on Square Root Problem, and we would like to suggest PBSI(Password Based Secure Identification), enhancing the stability, for all of the well-known attacks by now including Off-line dictionary attack, password file compromise, Server and so on. The PBSI is also excellent in the aspect of the performance.