• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.39-46
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• 2003

Biometric technologies using biometric information like fingerprints features are in wide use for the secure user authentication in many services including log-in of computer systems, entrance ID and E-commercial security. Nowadays, biometric technologies are ported into small embedded systems like security tokens or smart cards due to the merit of being secure and automatic in comparison with the previous method in user authentication such as using a PIN. In this paper, the security token developed as an embedded system and tile user authentication system implemented and tested using fingerprints information are described. Communications between the security token and tile host are tested and verified with USB. And, execution time and runtime memory on tile security token board was measured and performance improvement was described. In addition, requisites for the transit from the security token to the match-on-card was mentioned.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.240-253
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• 2012

In this paper we propose a protection mechanism for the debug port. While debug ports are useful tools for embedded device development and maintenance, they can also become potential attack tools for device hacking in case their usage is permitted to hackers with malicious intentions. The proposed approach prevents illicit use of debug ports by controlling access through user authentication, where the device generates and issues authentication token only to the server-authenticated users. An authentication token includes user access information which represents the user's permitted level of access and the maximum number of authentications allowed using the token. The device authenticates the user with the token and grants limited access based on the user's access level. The proposed approach improves the degree of overall security by removing the need to expose the device's secret key. Availability is also enhanced by not requiring server connection after the initial token generation and further by supporting flexible token transfer among predefined device groups. Low implementation cost is another benefit of the proposed approach, enabling it to be adopted to a wide range of environments in demand of debug port protection.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.139-150
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• 2008

Recently, financial institutes and industrial companies are adopted to security token such as OTP, smart card, and USB authentication token and so on for secure system management and user authentication. However, some research institutes have been introduced security weaknesses and problems in security tokens. Therefore, in this paper, we analyses of security functions and security requirements in security token performed by analyses of standardization documents, trends, security problems, attack methods for security tokens. Finally, we propose a CC v.3.1 based security token protection profile.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06e
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• pp.285-288
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• 2002

The match-on-token is a system which executes the user-authentication on the system using the user's biometric information. Nowadays, due to increase of request of the secure user-authentication on various parts, it comes to more use. In this paper, the match-on-token system under development by ETRI is described. The system consists of a host and an emulator board. USB is employed as the communication channel between them. First, the hooting code of the emulator board was programmed and tested in order that USB programs and the finger-print matching program can be executed correctly. Then, host programs cooperating with the board was designed, implemented and tested. Finally, future research including optimization of applications on the match-on-token will be mentioned.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.1C
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• pp.25-34
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• 2004

In mobile agent environments, cascaded delegations among places occur frequently due to the mobility of agents. Cascaded delegation in mobile agent environments can be defined as the process whereby the delegated place delegates the rights of the delegating place further. The representative study for delegation in mobile agent environments is Berkovits et al.'s study. Their study only defines the messages that is sent between the place executing the agent and the place where the agent migrates. Because their study considers only the delegation between two places which participate in migration of an agent, it is inadequate in the situation that the cascaded delegation is necessary. In other words, the relationships among the messages sent from and to places is necessary. However, their study does not exist the relationships. In this paper, we propose a delegation scheme that provides agents with secure cascaded delegation. The proposed scheme achieves the goal by nesting each delegation token within the signed part of the next immediate delegation token. We prove that the proposed scheme is secure against the attack of replaying a message and of substituting a delegation token.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.1103-1113
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• 2020

Hospitals store and manage personal and health information through the electronic medical record (EMR). However, vulnerabilities and threats are increasing with the provision of various services for information sharing in hospitals. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a model to prevent personal information leakage due to the transmission of patient information in EMR. A method for granting permission to securely receive and transmit patient information from hospitals where patient medical records are stored is proposed using OAuth authorization tokens. A protocol was proposed to enable secure information delivery by applying and delivering the record access restrictions desired by the patient to the OAuth Token. OAuth Delegation Token can be delivered by writing the authority, scope, and time of destruction to view patient information.This prevents the illegal collection of patient information and prevents the leakage of personal information that may occur during the delivery process.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2009

Recently, in the security token based authentication system, there is an increasing trend of using fingerprint for the token holder verification, instead of passwords. However, the security of the fingerprint data is particularly important as the possible compromise of the data will be permanent. In this paper, we propose an approach for secure fingerprint verification by distributing both the secret and the computation based on the fuzzy vault(a cryptographic construct which has been proposed for crypto-biometric systems). That is, a user fingerprint template which is applied to the fuzzy vault is divided into two parts, and each part is stored into a security token and a server, respectively. At distributing the fingerprint template, we consider both the security level and the verification accuracy. Then, the geometric hashing technique is applied to solve the fingerprint alignment problem, and this computation is also distributed over the combination of the security token and the server in the form of the challenge-response. Finally, the polynomial can be reconstructed from the accumulated real points from both the security token and the server. Based on the experimental results, we confirm that our proposed approach can perform the fuzzy vault-based fingerprint verification more securely on a combination of a security token and a server without significant degradation of the verification accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.277-280
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 오픈 뱅킹 플랫폼의 안전한 권한 부여를 위한 OAuth 인증 과정의 권한코드 획득 단계와 액세스토큰 사용 단계에서의 보안 취약점을 분석하여 위협 모델을 정의하고 위협에 대응하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 하는 방법은 크게 3단계로 구분한다. 1단계로 핀테크 앱을 등록 한 후, 2단계로 사용자가 권한을 핀테크 앱에 제공하기 위하여 사용자와 핀테크 앱의 신원을 안전하게 확인하고, 액세스토큰을 준비하는 단계, 3단계로 액세스토큰 탈취에 의한 재사용 공격에 대한 안전한 액세스토큰의 사용으로 구성되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 연구와의 비교를 통하여 OAuth 인증 플로우의 보안 위협에 대해 기존 권한승인 획득 단계와 액세스토큰 사용 단계를 포괄하는 넓은 위협에 대응을 할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.16-20
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• 2004

This paper developed a secure web-based digital notary system. The system conforms to international standards, and gives users very good accessibility to it. The technologies and the application systems for timestamp-related services are not yet popularized, but they are potentially meaningful to many kinds of areas such as ecommerces, digital right managements, and internet mail systems. The digital notary system uses the timestamp requests and responses which conforms to rfc 3161. The system supports secure communication between web-based notary server and its clients by using SSL(Secure Socket Layer), and use nonces for prevention of replay attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.831-847
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• 2013

The various types of data are being created in large quantities resulting from the spread of social media and the mobile popularization. Many companies want to obtain valuable business information through the analysis of these large data. As a result, it is a trend to integrate the big data technologies into the company work. Especially, Hadoop is regarded as the most representative big data technology due to its terabytes of storage capacity, inexpensive construction cost, and fast data processing speed. However, the authentication token system of Hadoop Distributed File System(HDFS) for the user authentication is currently vulnerable to the replay attack and the datanode hacking attack. This can cause that the company secrets or the personal information of customers on HDFS are exposed. In this paper, we analyze the possible security threats to HDFS when tokens or datanodes are exposed to the attackers. Finally, we propose the secure authentication protocol in HDFS based on hash chain.