• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.297-301
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• 2013

Key agreement protocols allow multi-parties exchanging public information to create a common secret key that is known only to those entities over an insecure network. Since Joux first published the pairing-based one round tripartite key agreement protocol, many authenticated protocols have been proposed. Unfortunately, many of them have been broken while others have been shown to be deficient in some desirable security attributes. In 2004, Cheng et al. presented two protocols aimed at strengthening Shim's certificate-based and Zhang et al.'s tripartite identity-based protocols. This paper reports that 1) In Cheng et al.'s identity-based protocol, an adversary can extract long-term private keys of all the parties involved; and 2) Cheng et al.'s certification-based protocol is weak against key integrity attacks. This paper suggests possible remedies for the security flaws in both protocols and then presents a modified Cheng et al.'s identity-based, one-round tripartite protocol that is more secure than the original protocol.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3352-3365
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• 2012

Group key agreement (GKA) is a cryptographic primitive allowing two or more users to negotiate a shared session key over public networks. Wu et al. recently introduced the concept of asymmetric GKA that allows a group of users to negotiate a common public key, while each user only needs to hold his/her respective private key. However, Wu et al.'s protocol can not resist active attacks, such as fabrication. To solve this problem, Zhang et al. proposed an authenticated asymmetric GKA protocol, where each user is authenticated during the negotiation process, so it can resist active attacks. Whereas, Zhang et al.'s protocol needs a partially trusted certificate authority to issue certificates, which brings a heavy certificate management burden. To eliminate such cost, Zhang et al. constructed another protocol in identity-based setting. Unfortunately, it suffers from the so-called key escrow problem. In this paper, we propose the certificateless authenticated asymmetric group key agreement protocol which does not have certificate management burden and key escrow problem. Besides, our protocol achieves known-key security, unknown key-share security, key-compromise impersonation security, and key control security. Our simulation based on the pairing-based cryptography (PBC) library shows that this protocol is efficient and practical.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10B
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• pp.1013-1020
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• 2009

This paper proposes an authentication protocol using the key server in the ECPglobai RFID system. The proposed authentication protocol uses the key server and the time-out mechanism to resist various attacks including DoS(Denial of Service) attack. For easy implementation, the proposed protocol also uses the function existing in EPCglobal class 1 gen2 protocol without additive function such as hash function. The proposed protocol is evaluated through two analytical methods. The correctness of the proposed protocol is proved using the GNY analysis. By the security analysis, this paper showed that the proposed protocol is resistant to various attacks including DoS attack. The analytical results demonstrated that the proposed protocol offered a secure RFID system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.3244-3260
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• 2013

A three-party password-based authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol allows two clients registered with a trusted server to generate a common cryptographic key from their individual passwords shared only with the server. A key requirement for three-party PAKE protocols is to prevent an adversary from mounting a dictionary attack. This requirement must be met even when the adversary is a malicious (registered) client who can set up normal protocol sessions with other clients. This work revisits three existing three-party PAKE protocols, namely, Guo et al.'s (2008) protocol, Huang's (2009) protocol, and Lee and Hwang's (2010) protocol, and demonstrates that these protocols are not secure against offline and/or (undetectable) online dictionary attacks in the presence of a malicious client. The offline dictionary attack we present against Guo et al.'s protocol also applies to other similar protocols including Lee and Hwang's protocol. We conclude with some suggestions on how to design a three-party PAKE protocol that is resistant against dictionary attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.73-92
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• 2005

Joux's tripartite key agreement protocol is one of the most prominent developments in the area of key agreement. Although certificate-based and ID-based authentication schemes have been proposed to provide authentication for Joux's protocol, no provably secure password-based one round tripartite key agreement protocol has been proposed yet. We propose a secure one round password-based tripartite key agreement protocol that builds on Joux's protocol and adapts PAK-EC scheme for password-based authentication, and present a proof of its security.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.1982-1997
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• 2012

Authenticated multiple key agreement protocols not only allow participants to agree the multiple session keys within one run of the protocol but also ensure the authenticity of the other party. In 2011, Dehkordi et al. proposed an identity-based authenticated multiple key agreement protocol. In this paper, we demonstrate that Dehkordi et al.'s protocol is vulnerable to impersonation attacks. Furthermore, we have found that their protocol cannot provide perfect forward security or mutual security. Then we propose an identity-based authenticated multiple key agreement protocol which removes the weaknesses of the Dehkordi et al.'s protocol. Compared with the multiple key agreement protocols in the literature, the proposed protocol is more efficient and holds stronger security.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.751-765
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• 2012

Key establishment protocols are fundamental for establishing secure communication channels over public insecure networks. Security must be given the topmost priority in the design of a key establishment protocol. In this work, we provide a security analysis on two recent key establishment protocols: Harn and Lin's group key transfer protocol and Dutta and Barua's group key agreement protocol. Our analysis shows that both the Harn-Lin protocol and the Dutta-Barua protocol have a flaw in their design and can be easily attacked. The attack we mount on the Harn-Lin protocol is a replay attack whereby a malicious user can obtain the long-term secrets of any other users. The Dutta-Barua protocol is vulnerable to an unknown key-share attack. For each of the two protocols, we present how to eliminate their security vulnerabilities. We also improve Dutta and Barua's proof of security to make it valid against unknown key share attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.41-52
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• 1997

In this paper, we analyze two claws of Zhou-Gollmann's protocol. The protocol divide the message into a key K and a ciphertext C. The ciphertext C is delivered to the recipient, but the key K is submitted to the TTP, after the message originator receive the recipient's receipt for the ciphertext. TTP puts the key in the directory which is accesaible to the public. So, the recipient's obtaining the message dependson whether the originator submits the key or not. We will show that the originator. which is in such an advantageous position, could make the protocol be unfair and present how to improve the protocol. On the other hand, Zhou-Gollmann's protocol doesn't provide the secrecy of the message, since the key K is published. This means that, to send a secret message, additional mechanism is required. In this paper, we will present an improvement of Zhou-Gollmann's protocol to keep the message secret. The key distribution of the proposed protocol is based on the Diffie-Hellman's one.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.152-156
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• 2001

In this paper we propose a secure multicast key distribution protocol using OFT(One-way Function Trees). The proposed protocol is a hybrid scheme of DKMP(Distributed Key Management Protocol) that guarantees all group member's participation for generating a group key, and CKMP(Centralized Key Management Protocol) that makes it easy to manage group key and design a protocol. Since the proposed protocol also computes group key using only hash function and bitwise-XOR, computational overhead ran be reduced. Hence it is suitably and efficiently adaptive to dynamic multicast environment that membership change event frequently occurs.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.163-165
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• 2008

Recently, Lu and Cao proposed a password-authenticated key exchange protocol in the three party setting, and the authors claimed that their protocol works within three rounds. In this paper, we analyze the protocol and show the protocol cannot work within three rounds. We also find two security flaws in the protocol. The protocol is vulnerable to an undetectable password guessing attack and an off-line password guessing attack.