• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2014

Password-based authentication using smart card provides two factor authentications, namely a successful login requires the client to have a valid smart card and a correct password. While it provides stronger security guarantees than only password authentication, it could also fail if both authentication factors are compromised ((1) the user's smart card was stolen and (2) the user's password was exposed). In this case, there is no way to prevent the adversary from impersonating the user. Now, the new technology of biometrics is becoming a popular method for designing a more secure authentication scheme. In terms of physiological and behavior human characteristics, biometric information is used as a form of authentication factor. Biometric information, such as fingerprints, faces, voice, irises, hand geometry, and palmprints can be used to verify their identities. In this article, we review the biometric-based authentication scheme by Cheng et al. and provide a security analysis on the scheme. Our analysis shows that Cheng et al.'s scheme does not guarantee any kind of authentication, either server-to-user authentication or user-to-server authentication. The contribution of the current work is to demonstrate these by mounting two attacks, a server impersonation attack and a user impersonation attack, on Cheng et al.'s scheme. In addition, we propose the enhanced authentication scheme that eliminates the security vulnerabilities of Cheng et al.'s scheme.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제8권3호
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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.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2018

User authentication scheme is a method for controlling unauthorized users' access to securely share the services and resources provided by the server and for verifying users with access rights. Initial user authentication scheme was based on passwords. Nowadays, various authentication schemes such as ID based, smart-card based, and attribute based are being researched. The study of Lee et al. suggested a user authentication scheme that provides forward secrecy and protects anonymity of users. However, it is vulnerable to attacks by outsiders and attackers who have acquired smart-cards. In this paper, we propose a modified smart-card authentication scheme to complement the weakness of the previous studies. The proposed user authentication scheme provides the security for the ID guessing attack and the password guessing attacks of the attacker who obtained the login request message and the user's smart-card.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2017

In 2013, Lee-Lie proposed secure smart card based authentication scheme of Zhu's authentication for TMIS which is secure against the various attacks and efficient password change. In this paper, we discuss the security of Lee-Lie's smart card-based authentication scheme, and we have shown that Lee-Lie's authentication scheme is still insecure against the various attacks. Also, we proposed the improved scheme to overcome these security problems of Lee-Lie's authentication scheme, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result, we can see that the improved smart card based user authentication scheme for TMIS is secure against the insider attack, the password guessing attack, the user impersonation attack, the server masquerading attack, the session key generation attack and provides mutual authentication between the user and the telecare system.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.139-147
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• 2010

사용자 인증 스킴은 개방된 통신환경에서 원격지에 있는 사용자가 서버에 로긴할 때 정당한 사용자 인지를 확인하는 것이다. 2005년 Liao등은 스마트 카드를 이용해서 사용자의 익명성을 보장하는 사용자 인증 스킴을 제안하였다. 최근 Yoon등은 Liao가 제안한 사용자 인증 스킴의 안전성 분석을 수행한 후 그 스킴에 존재하는 결점을 보완하는 향상된 스킴을 제안하였다. 그러나 안타깝게도 그들이 제안한 스킴은 사용자가 서버를 인증하는 방식과 서버가 사용자를 인증 방식을 모두 수행할 수 없고 패스워드의 안전성에도 문제점이 존재한다. 이러한 문제점을 이 논문에서는 서버 가장 공격, 사용자 가장 공격, 오프라인 사전공격을 수행하여 지적하였다. 아울러 본 논문에서는 Yoon등이 제안한 논문의 취약점을 제거하여 보다 안전한 사용자 인증 스킴을 제안하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권12호
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• pp.2167-2176
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• 2016

In the multi-server environment, remote user authentication has a very critical issue because it provides the authorization that enables users to access their resource or services. For this reason, numerous remote user authentication schemes have been proposed over recent years. Recently, Lin et al. have shown that the weaknesses of Baruah et al.'s three factors user authentication scheme for multi-server environment, and proposed an enhanced biometric-based remote user authentication scheme. They claimed that their scheme has many security features and can resist various well-known attacks; however, we found that Lin et al.'s scheme is still insecure. In this paper, we demonstrate that Lin et al.'s scheme is vulnerable against the outsider attack and user impersonation attack, and propose a new biometric-based scheme for authentication and key agreement that can be used in the multi-server environment. Lastly, we show that the proposed scheme is more secure and can support the security properties.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.79-82
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• 2012

In digital contents distribution environments, a user authentication is an important security primitive to allow only authenticated user to use right services by checking the validity of membership. For example, in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) environments, it is required to provide an access control according to the policy of content provider. Remote user authentication and key agreement scheme is used to validate the contents accessibility of a user. We propose a novel user authentication scheme using smart cards providing a secure access to multimedia contents service. Each user is authenticated using a subset of attributes which are issued in the registration phase without revealing individual's identity. Our scheme provides the anonymous authentication and the various permissions according to the combination of attributes which are assigned to each user. In spite of more functionality, the result of performance analysis shows that the computation and communication cost is very low. Using this scheme, the security of contents distribution environments in the client-server model can be significantly improved.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2006년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.33 No.2 (D)
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• pp.132-134
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an efficient bilateral remote user authentication scheme with smart cards. Our scheme ensures both-way authentication, so that any attempt of the adversary to affect the secure communications between the authentication server and the user could not be successful. We also present a brief analysis of our proposed scheme and show that it is well-resistant against the known attacks in remote user authentication process.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.81-93
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• 2013

원격사용자 인증스킴은 안전하지 않은 통신상에서 원격 서버에게 사용자의 적법함을 확인하는 방법이다. 현재, 스마트카드 기반의 원격사용자 인증스킴들은 상호인증을 위해 연산비용은 낮추면서 간편한 기법이 넓게 적용되어오고 있다. 2009년, Wang et al.'s는 스마트카드를 이용한 동적 ID기반의 원격사용자 인증스킴을 제안했다. Wang et al.'s 스킴은 여러 가지 공격에 안전하고 서버에서 선택된 강력한 패스워드에 의해 익명성이 보장된다고 주장했다. 그러나 본 논문에서는 Wang et al.'s 스킴이 인증과정에서 사용자의 익명성을 제공하지 않는 취약점이 있다고 지적한다. 또 사용자에게 패스워드 선택의 권한이 없으며 제한된 replay 공격에 취약하다. 특히 사용자에게 전송된 파라미터 y는 매우 부적절하게 사용되고 있다. 이러한 보안의 결점을 극복하기 위해 Wang et al.'s 스킴의 식별된 약점을 보완하고 사용자와 원격서버 간에 완전한 익명성보장과 향상된 인증스킴을 제안한다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.59-63
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• 2016

Secondary damage to the user is a problem in biometrics. A brain-wave has no shape and a malicious user may not cause secondary damage to a user. However, if user sends brain-wave signals to an authentication system using a network, a malicious user could easily capture the brain-wave signals. Then, the malicious user could access the authentication system using the captured brain-wave signals. In addition, the dataset containing the brain-wave signals is large and the transfer time is long. However, user authentication requires a real-time processing, and an encryption scheme on brain-wave signals is necessary. In this paper, we propose an efficient encryption scheme using a chaos map and adaptive junk data on the brain-wave signals for user authentication. As a result, the encrypted brain-wave signals are produced and the processing time for authentication is reasonable in real-time.