• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.303-310
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• 2011

Recently, many user authentication schemes using smart cards have been proposed to improve the security weaknesses in user authentication process. In 2009, Wang et al. proposed a more effective and secure dynamic ID-based remote user authentication scheme to improve the security weakness of Das et al.'s scheme, and asserted that the improved scheme is secure against independent of password in authentication phase and provides mutual authentication between the user and the remote server. However, in this paper, we analyze the security of Wang et al. scheme and demonstrate that Wang et al.'s scheme is vulnerable to the man-in-the-middle attack and the off-line password guessing attack. In addition, we show that Wang et al. scheme also fails to provide mutual authentication. Accordingly, we propose an improved scheme to overcome these security weakness even if the secrete information stored in the smart card is revealed. Our proposed scheme can withstand the user impersonation attack, the server masquerading attack and off-line password guessing attack. Furthermore, this improved scheme provides the mutual authentication and is more effective than Wang et al.'s scheme in term of the computational complexities.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.12
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• pp.517-524
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• 2013

Although password-based authentication as known as knowledge-based authentication was commonly used but intrinsic problems such as dictionary attack remain unsolved. For that the study on possession-based authentication was required. User remote authentication using smartcard is proceeding actively since Lee et al. proposed user remote authentication using knowledge-based information(password) and possession-base information(smartcard) in 2002. in 2009, Xu et al. proposed a new protocol preserving user anonymity and Shin et al. proposed enhanced scheme with analysis of its vulnerabilities on user anonymity and masquerading attack in 2012. In this paper, we analyze Shin et al. scheme on forward secrecy and insider attack and present novel user authentication based on elliptic curve cryptosystem which is secure against forward secrecy, insider attack, user anonymity and masquerading attack.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.31-39
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• 2008

Recently, remote user authentication schemes using smart cards has been researched to provide user privacy because of increasing interest and demands. Previously, provided authentication schemes were only concerned about providing user privacy against outside attackers, but the scheme. which guarantees user privacy against both a remote server and outside attackers, has been recently demanded because the user's information has leaked out through the service providers. When the remote server perceives a user doing a malicious act, the server should be able to trace the malicious user by receiving help from a trust agency. In this paper, we suggest a scheme which not only guarantees user privacy against both a remote server and outside attackers, but also provides traceable anonymity authentication.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.2750-2759
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• 2009

In this paper, we analyze vulnerabilities in a remote authentication protocol using smartcards which was proposed by Bindu et al. and propose an improved scheme. The proposed scheme can prevent from restricted replay attack and denial of service attack by replacing time stamp with random number. In addition, this protocol can guarantee user anonymity by transmitting encrypted user's ID using AES cipher algorithm. The computational load in our protocol is decreased by removing heavy exponentiation operations and user efficiency is enhanced due to addition of password change phase in which a user can freely change his password. Furthermore, we really implement the proposed authentication protocol using a STM smartcard and authentication server. Then we prove the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed remote authentication system.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2016

The IOT environment, people connected to the network, object, everything such as space (Things) generates data in real time. The information between the object collecting, sharing, are utilized. Currently health care, research in various fields such as smart home has been promoted. Also appeared concepts emphasized all things(IOE) Internet connection between the geographic space and the Internet. Human, while important connections between the objects, such as objects, studies of efficient and secure authentication technologies have been developed. In this paper, we propose a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) protocol for improved mutual authentication between each object in the IOT environment.

• The Journal of Natural Sciences
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.131-136
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• 1995

In this paper, We propose an efficient remote password authentication scheme that enables network users to access and open distributed network. Our authentication Scheme provides a pair of a center-supplied password and a user key for a network user. The center-supplied password is generated on the center, and the user key can be chosen by the network user. Each network user can access multiple centers through the open and distributed network by using single super smart card. The passwords generated by network centers are sent to the network users via secure channel, and put into their own supper smart card by themselves.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.133-138
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• 2009

Recently Lin et al. proposed the remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. But the proposed scheme has not been satisfied security requirements considering in the user authentication scheme using the password based smart card. In this paper, we showed that he can get the user's password using the off-line password guessing attack on the scheme when the adversary steals the user's smart card and extracts the information in the smart card. Also, we proposed the seven security requirements for evaluating remote user authentication schemes using smart card. As a result of analysis, in Lin et al's scheme we have found the deficiencies of security requirements. So we suggest the improved scheme, the mutual authentication scheme that does not store the user's password verifier in server and can authenticate each other at the same time between the user and server.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.62-68
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• 2008

Remote user authentication scheme is a cryptographic tool which permits a server to identify a remote user. In 2007, Wang et al. pointed out that Ku's remote user authentication scheme is vulnerable to a dictionary attack by obtaining some secret information in a smart card using side channel attacks. They also proposed a remote user authentication scheme which is secure against dictionary attack. In this paper, we analyze the protocol proposed by Wang et al. In the paper, it is claimed that the protocol is secure even though some values, which is stored in a smart card, are revealed to an adversary, However, we show that their protocol is insecure if the values are disclosed to an adversary.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.119-131
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• 2013

With the explosive growth of computer networks, many remote service providing servers and multi-server network architecture are provided and it is extremely inconvenient for users to remember numerous different identities and passwords. Therefore, it is important to provide a mechanism for a remote user to use single identity and password to access multi-server network architecture without repetitive registration and various multi-server authentication schemes have been proposed in recent years. Recently, Tsaur et al. proposed an efficient and secure smart card based user authentication and key agreement scheme for multi-server environments. They claimed that their scheme satisfies all of the requirements needed for achieving secure password authentication in multi-server environments and gives the formal proof on the execution of the proposed authenticated key agreement scheme. However, we find that Tsaur et al.'s scheme is still vulnerable to impersonation attack and many logged-in users' attack. We propose an extended scheme that not only removes the aforementioned weaknesses on their scheme but also achieves user anonymity for hiding login user's real identity. Compared with other previous related schemes, our proposed scheme keeps the efficiency and security and is more suitable for the practical applications.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.3
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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.