• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2009

Recently, user authentication is the most important part as far as security to provide confidentiality and integrity over untrusted networks like the Internet. Especially, password-based user authentication method is the most widely-used user authentication method due to various advantages, such as human-memorable simplicity, convenience, mobility, low-cost operations and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a new strong password mutual authentication protocol. As a result, the proposed authentication protocol provides more security and efficiency compare with the previously related protocols. So that, it can be used practically as the Internet authentication protocol.

• 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.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.24-32
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• 2013

Authentication is one of the necessary elements in the network environment. Many researches have detected security vulnerabilities to the existing authentication mechanisms and suggested secure mutual authentication protocols by resolving these vulnerabilities. The representative ones of them are SPMA(Strong Pass Mutual Authentication) and I-SPMA(Improved Strong Password Mutual Authentication). However, these protocols cause a critical problem when the shared secret information is de-synchronized between the server and the client. This paper proposes a revised protocol to resolve the de-synchronization problem. Based on a security assessment on the proposed protocol, we consider the proposed protocol is safer than the previous ones and possible to effectively make a user authentication system mre secure.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.423-430
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• 2013

With the active Internet e-commerce and the financial sector, mutual authentication between users and service providers has become very important. Because ID- and password-based authentication is of low security, one-time password authentication methods are widely used. The existing one-time password authentication scheme of S/Key authentication method is fraught with a number of issues in addition to plain text transmission, and the method of Kim Gong-ki et al. does not offer suggestions for session key generation and distribution method. Proposed in this paper is a protocol that solves these problems.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.1301-1306
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• 2010

The protocol based on password have very important qualifications that not only satisfy against attacks cause of restricting that have, but also efficiency of reducing users' workload. It has a problem of speculative attacks for the user authentication protocol based on password with most case, because users use password that can remember easily. Song and Etc. have proposed new mechanism that improved the problem of S/KEY system. The protocol proposed by Song has a problem in registration process, and user information can be abused by the malevolent server. We propose a new authentication protocol based on efficient OPT, that improved above problems.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.37-43
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• 2002

This paper proposes a password-based mutual authentication and key agreement protocol, which is designed by applying ECDSA and ECDH. The proposed protocol, AKE-ECC, computes 2 times of point multiplication over ECC on each of client and server, and generates the key pairs(public key. private key) and a common session key using ECDH that is different compare to previously proposed protocol. It is against common attacks include a dictionary attack and the security of proposed protocol is based on the ECDLP, ECDH.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.993-999
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• 2015

OTP(One time password) is widely used as an authentication method for financial and other security-sensitive transactions. OTP provides strong security since each password is used only one time while normal password-based authentications use passwords as long term secrets. However, OTP-based authentications relatively lack usability since they require users to hold an OTP card or generator. To overcome such a problem, smartphones start replacing OTP cards and such a method is called smart OTP. However, smart OTP inherits security vulnerabilities that smartphones have. In this paper, we propose a smart OTP authentication based on an extremely light authentication protocol called HB+. HB+ protocol is developed for low-cost devices and has small communication and computation costs. We present our solution and discuss its security, efficiency and practicality. Our contribution is providing a method to securely use smart OTP without losing its efficiency and usability.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.71-84
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• 2019

Various researchers conducted the research on two-factor authentication suitable for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) after Das first proposed two-factor authentication combining the smart card and password. After then, To improve the security of user authentication, elliptic curve cryptography(ECC)-based authentication protocols have been proposed. Jiang et al. proposed a privacy-aware two-factor authentication protocol based on ECC for WSM for resolving various problems of ECC-based authentication protocols. However, Jiang et al.'s protocol has the vulnerabilities on a lack of mutual authentication, a risk of SID modification and a lack of sensor anonymity, and user's ID exposed on sensor node Therefore, this paper proposed security enhanced privacy-aware two-factor authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks to solve the problem of Jiang et al.'s protocol, and security analysis was conducted for the proposed protocol.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.198-204
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• 2003

지금까지 제안된 패스워드를 이용하는 인증 프로토콜은 오프라인 추측 공격이나 패스워드 파일 컴프로마이즈에 대하여 안전하지 않으므로 이에 대한 연구가 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 패스워드를 이용하는 인증 프로토콜인 스키마 PAP(Password based Authentication Protocol)을 적용하여 새로운 인증 프로토콜 PAPRSA를 제안하였다. PAP는 패스워드를 표현하는 많은 값들 중에서 임의로 선택한 한 값을 처리하는 것을 특징으로 한다. PAPRSA는 패스워드를 표현하는 값을 처리하기 위하여 RSA를 이용하는 PAP기반 인중 프로토콜이다. 제안된 PAPRSA는 오프라인 추측 공격과 패스워드 파일 컴프로마이즈를 포함한 공격들로부터 안전하였으며, 패스 수와 계산량을 측정한 결과 효율성 면에서 매우 우수하였다.