• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.4987-5014
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• 2015

The bilinear pairing, also known as Weil pairing or Tate pairing, is widely used in cryptography and its properties help to construct cryptographic schemes for different applications in which the security of the transmitted data is a major concern. In remote login authentication schemes, there are two major requirements: i) proving the identity of a user and the server for legitimacy without exposing their private keys and ii) freedom for a user to choose and change his password (private key) efficiently. Most of the existing methods based on the bilinear property have some security breaches due to the lack of features and the design issues. In this paper, we develop a new scheme using the bilinear property of an elliptic point and the biometric characteristics. Our method provides many features along with three major goals. a) Checking the correctness of the password before sending the authentication message, which prevents the wastage of communication cost; b) Efficient password change phase in which the user is asked to give a new password after checking the correctness of the current password without involving the server; c) User anonymity - enforcing the suitability of our scheme for applications in which a user does not want to disclose his identity. We use BAN logic to ensure the mutual authentication and session key agreement properties. The paper provides informal security analysis to illustrate that our scheme resists all the security attacks. Furthermore, we use the AVISPA tool for formal security verification of our scheme.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.617-624
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• 2000

We introduce the concept of a Identity Escrow Scheme, an application of key escrow ideas to solve the problem of authentication. In the Identity Escrow Scheme, the User escrows a own real identity to the Issuer and receives a Authentication Information. In authentication step, between the User to the Service Provider, the User only gives a Authentication Information to the Service Provider. Therefore, the Service Provider don't know a real identity of user's. However, when the User does unlawful actions, the Lawful Agent is called by the Service Provider, and his anonymity is revoked by cooperation of the Issuer and the Lawful Agent. We propose new Identity Escrow Schemes and analyze these.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.119-128
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• 2002

In case certification between user and service provider is achieved, problem that user's identity is revealed is occurring by social issue, so it was presented identity escrow scheme to solve these problem. In identity escrow scheme, the issuer who have correct user's identity transmits securely anonymity authentication information to user, and user achieves authentication phase with service provider keeping oneself anonymity using this. In this paper, we present requirement for security and trusty of identity escrow scheme and propose new mechanism that can security this. Also, propose method that service provider can deliver securely contents to user and propose mechanism that improve that support ky recovery at encryption communication that using secret key that it was generated by key agreement between users.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.25-32
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• 2005

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, the deployment of this computing paradigm in real-life is disturbed by poor security, particularly, the lack of proper authentication and authorization techniques. Also, it is very important not only to find security measures but also to preserve user privacy in ubiquitous computing environments. In this Paper, we propose efficient user authentication and authorization model with anonymity for the privacy-preserving for ubiquitous computing environments. Our model is suitable for distributed environments with the computational constrained devices by using MAC-based anonymous certificate and security association token instead of using Public key encryption technique. And our Proposed Protocol is better than Kerberos system in sense of cryptographic computation processing.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.85-97
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• 1999

A blind signature scheme is a protocol allowing verifier to obtain a valid signature for a message m from a signer without him seeing the message. This means that the bank in collaboration with the shop cannot trace the electronic cash to user. However anonymous electronic cash also facilitates fraud and criminal acts such as money laundering anonymous blackmailing and illegal purchaes. Therefore in this paper we propose fair blind signature scheme based on KCDSA which is a domestic digital signature scheme and it apply a electronic cash system. In particularly a proposed electronic cash system have an anonymity control ability which trace a user who make use a electronic cash illegally in association with a trusted center.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.231-234
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• 2021

Various problems arise as applications using locations increase. In order to solve this problem, related works are being conducted to protect the location of users. A fundamental reason for this problem is that users must provide their location information to the service provider (server) to receive the service. To improve these problems, there are works such as generating cloaking regions or generating dummies around them. However, if a user periodically asks the server for queries, the user's trajectory may be exposed by time zone. To improve this problem, in this paper, we propose a k-Anonymity Trajectory (k-ATY) technique that can improve the exposure probability of the trajectory even if the user requests continuous queries. Experimental results demonstrated the superiority of the proposed technique.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.6169-6187
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• 2017

With the fast growth of mobile services, Mobile Cloud Computing(MCC) has gained a great deal of attention from researchers in the academic and industrial field. User authentication and privacy are significant issues in MCC environment. Recently, Tsai and Lo proposed a privacy-aware authentication scheme for distributed MCC services, which claimed to support mutual authentication and user anonymity. However, Irshad et.al. pointed out this scheme cannot achieve desired security goals and improved it. Unfortunately, this paper shall show that security features of Irshad et.al.'s scheme are achieved at the price of multiple time-consuming operations, such as three bilinear pairing operations, one map-to-point hash function operation, etc. Besides, it still suffers from two minor design flaws, including incapability of achieving three-factor security and no user revocation and re-registration. To address these issues, an enhanced and provably secure authentication scheme for distributed MCC services will be designed in this work. The proposed scheme can meet all desirable security requirements and is able to resist against various kinds of attacks. Moreover, compared with previously proposed schemes, the proposed scheme provides more security features while achieving lower computation and communication costs.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.189-198
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• 2003

As people are damaged increasingly by personal information leakage, awareness about user privacy infringement is increasing. However, the existing DRM system does not support the protection of user's personal information because it is not necessary for the protection of copyrights. This paper is suggesting a license administration protocol which is more powerful to protect personal information in DRM. To protect the exposure of users identifier, this protocol uses temporary ID and token to guarantee anonymity and it uses a session key by ECDH to cryptography and Public-Key Cryptosystem for a message so that it can protect the exposure of personal information and user's privacy.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.247-258
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• 2013

A new secure network communication technique that has been designed for mobile wireless services, is presented in this paper. Its network services are mobile, distributed, seamless, and secure. We focus on the security of the scheme and achieve anonymity and reliability by using cryptographic techniques like blind signature and the electronic coin. The question we address in this paper is, "What is the best way to protect the privacy and anonymity of users of mobile wireless networks, especially in practical applications like e-commerce?" The new scheme is a flexible solution that answers this question. It efficiently protects user's privacy and anonymity in mobile wireless networks and supports various applications. It is employed to implement a secure e-auction as an example, in order to show its advantages in practical network applications.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.839-846
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• 1999

전자상거래에서 중요한 지불 수단으로 떠오르고 있는 전자화폐 시스템에 있어서 사용자에의 익명성 제공은 기존의 지불 시스템에서 제공하지 못하는 중요한 요소이다. 그러나 사용자 익명성을 악용하여 각종 범죄 활동에 이용하려는 시도가 발생할 수 있으며 전자화폐 시스템 도입시 이에 대한 대책도 함께 강구되어야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 전자화폐의 효율적 사용을 위해 분할성 기능과 함께 화폐 추적과 사용자 추적 기능을 제공하는 효율적인 전자화폐 프로토콜을 제안한다.Abstract Electronic Cash System is an important payment method in Electronic Commerce. The anonymity of users is an important issue in such systems, but the issue has not been addressed by previous payment methods. User anonymity can lead to a system that is vulnerable to various criminal activities. Therefore, e-cash systems must consider ways to prevent such criminal activities. In this paper we suggest an efficient e-cash system that eliminates the vulnerability of the system by using the divisible ability of the system with the coin and owner tracing.