• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1033-1036
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• 2011

With the development of wireless networks and the use of mobile devices, mobile user's privacy issue is becoming more and more important. Privacy includes ID anonymity and unlinkability. Unlinkability requires that any two temporary IDs which have been used before should not be associated with each other. In other words, these temporary IDs should be generated in such a way that no direct relationship among them should be derived. The existing schemes only focus on ID anonymity of mobile users. In this paper, we proposed a scheme not only holding all the merits of previous works, but also achieving unlinkability which is guaranteed by using one-time-use temporary ID. And the mobile user can also updates its one-time-use temporary ID with the help of the visited foreign agent.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.501-511
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• 2013

Protecting privacy is an important goal in designing location-based services. Service providers want to verify legitimate users and allow permitted users to enjoy their services. Users, however, want to preserve their privacy and prevent tracking. In this paper, a new framework providing users with more privacy and anonymity in both the authentication process and the querying process is proposed. Unlike the designs proposed in previous works, our framework benefits from a combination of three important techniques: k-anonymity, timed fuzzy logic, and a one-way hash function. Modifying and adapting these existing schemes provides us with a simpler, less complex, yet more mature solution. During authentication, the one-way hash function provides users with more privacy by using fingerprints of users' identities. To provide anonymous authentication, the concept of confidence level is adopted with timed fuzzy logic. Regarding location privacy, spatial k-anonymity prevents the users' locations from being tracked. The experiment results and analysis show that our framework can strengthen the protection of anonymity and privacy of users by incurring a minimal implementation cost and can improve functionality.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.3 s.99
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• pp.331-338
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• 2005

Flooding based P2P system basically provides anonymity and under the anonymity circumstances user and provider exchange information. Most of packets transferred from node to node do not contain identity information on node that sent packet. And these packets are transmitted to the destination through the routing systems dynamically composed of intermediate nodes. Therefore it is impossible to know who transmitted it for the first and who the designated recipient is. But since downloading and uploading host's IP address is exposed it does not provide anonymity. This study introduces techniques to provide anonymity for protecting identification of users and resource Providers by replacing QueryHit Packets in systems where anonymity can cause trouble.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.1314-1321
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• 2006

GSM(Global System for Mobile Communications) is a Pan-European digital cellular mobile system supporting widespread roaming and personal communication services in a worldwide wireless communication network. In suite of providing security capability, however, there are some problems like user authentication in GSM. In this paper, we propose the enhanced authentication mechanism to verify strongly each network entity to so]ye user authentication problem and support anonymity for user privacy.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.811-829
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• 2015

One-way authenticated key agreement protocols, aiming at solving the problems to establish secure communications over public insecure networks, can achieve one-way authentication of communicating entities for giving a specific user strong anonymity and confidentiality of transmitted data. Public Key Infrastructure can design one-way authenticated key agreement protocols, but it will consume a large amount of computation. Because one-way authenticated key agreement protocols mainly concern on authentication and key agreement, we adopt multi-server architecture to realize these goals. About multi-server architecture, which allow the user to register at the registration center (RC) once and can access all the permitted services provided by the eligible servers. The combination of above-mentioned ideas can lead to a high-practical scheme in the universal client/server architecture. Based on these motivations, the paper firstly proposed a new one-way authenticated key agreement scheme based on multi-server architecture. Compared with the related literatures recently, our proposed scheme can not only own high efficiency and unique functionality, but is also robust to various attacks and achieves perfect forward secrecy. Finally, we give the security proof and the efficiency analysis of our proposed scheme.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.69-77
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• 2010

Authentication and key establishment are fundamental procedures to establish secure communications over public insecure network. A password-based scheme is common method to provide authentication. In 2008, Khan proposed an efficient password-based authentication scheme using smart cards to solve the problems inherent in Wu-Chieu's authentication scheme. As for security, Khan claimed that his scheme is secure and provides mutual authentication between legal users and a remote server. In this paper, we demonstrate Khan's scheme to be vulnerable to various attacks, i. e., password guessing attack, insider attack, reflection attack and forgery attack. Our study shows that Khan's scheme does not provide mutual authentication and is insecure for practical applications. This paper proposes an improved scheme to overcome these problems and to preserve user anonymity that is an issue in e-commerce applications.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.3-12
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• 2006

The spread of mobile devices, PDAs and sensors has enabled the construction of ubiquitous computing environments, transforming regular physical spaces into 'smart space' augmented with intelligence and enhanced with services. However, unless privacy concerns are taken into account early in the design process of various ubiquitous devices(e.g. mobile devices, PDAs, sensors, etc.). we will end up crating ubiquitous surveillance infrastructure. Also, it may inappropriate to use public key techniques for computational constrained devices in ubiquitous computing environment. In this paper, we propose efficient user authentication and ky agreement protocol not only to preserve anonymity for protecting personal privacy but also to be suitable for computational constrained devices in ubiquitous computing environments.

• 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 KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.570-577
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• 2001

In recent years, Internet-based application services on the mobile environment have been activated, and the developments of mobile internet application for user authentication and privacy have been required. Especially, the research for preventing disclosure of identity caused by user mobility is on the progress. In this paper, we introduce the study of an authentication protocol for anonymity and untraceability supporting the protection of user identity and the authenticated secure association mechanism between mobile hosts and remote domains. In this protocol use public cryptography.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.168-174
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• 2010

User authentication is an important requirement to provide secure network service. Therefore, many authentication schemes have been proposed to provide secure authentication, such as key agreement and anonymity. However, authority of scheme is limited to one's self. It is inefficient when authenticated users grant a certification to other users who are in an organization which has a hierarchical structure, such as a company or school. In this paper, we propose the first authentication scheme to use Attributes-Based Re-encryption that creates a certification to other users with specified attributes. The scheme, which has expanded from Rhee et al. scheme, has optimized computation performance on a smart card, ensuring the user's anonymity and key agreement between users and server.