• Journal of National Security and Military Science
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• s.8
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• pp.421-465
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• 2010

Passwords are used in many ways to protect data, systems, and networks. Passwords are also used to protect files and other stored information. In addition, passwords are often used in less visible ways for authentication. In this article, We provides recommendations for password management, which is the process of defining, implementing, and maintaining password policies throughout an enterprise. Effective password management reduces the risk of compromise of password-based authentication systems. Organizations need to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of passwords so that all authorized users - and no unauthorized users - can use passwords successfully as needed. Integrity and availability should be ensured by typical data security controls, such as using access control lists to prevent attackers from overwriting passwords and having secured backups of password files. Ensuring the confidentiality of passwords is considerably more challenging and involves a number of security controls along with decisions involving the characteristics of the passwords themselves.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.938-957
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• 2023

The limited computing power of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and data tampering during wireless transmission are two important issues. In this paper, we propose a scheme for independent individual authentication of WSNs data based on digital watermarking technology. Digital watermarking suits well for WSNs, owing to its lower computational cost. The proposed scheme uses independent individual to generate a digital watermark and embeds the watermark in current data item. Moreover, a sink node extracts the watermark in single data and compares it with the generated watermark, thereby achieving integrity verification of data. Inherently, individual validation differs from the grouping-level validation, and avoids the lack of grouping robustness. The improved performance of individual integrity verification based on proposed scheme is validated through experimental analysis. Lastly, compared to other state-of-the-art schemes, our proposed scheme significantly reduces the false negative rate by an average of 5%, the false positive rate by an average of 80% of data verification, and increases the correct verification rate by 50% on average.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.29-38
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• 2005

Because IEEE 802.11 has several security vulnerabilities, IEEE 802.11i was proposed and accepted. But IEEE 802.11i has much overhead for most of users for the web surfing. Besides not only node the authentication but also the packet authentication is needed to communicate. Although IEEE 802.11i uses TKIP(Temporal Key integrity Protocol) and CCMP(CTR with CBC-MAC Protocol), they have a lot of overheads. In this paper, Lightweight Packet Authentication(LIPA) is proposed. LIPA has less overhead and short delay so that it can be affordable for simple web-surfing which does not need stronger security. After comparing performances of LIPA with those of TKIP and CCMP, LIPA is more efficient than other schemes for transmitting packets.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.463-472
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• 2012

This paper propose a security method that performs mutual authentication between the SIP UA and the server, check for integrity of the signaling channel and protection of SDP information for VoIP using a One-Time Password. To solve the vulnerability of existing HTTP Digest authentication scheme in SIP, Various SIP Authentication schemes have been proposed. But, these schemes can't meet security requirements of SIP or require expensive cryptographic operations. Proposed method uses OTP that only uses hash function and is updated each authentication. So Proposed method do not require expensive cryptographic operations but performs user authentication efficiently and safely than existing methods. In addition, Proposed method verifies the integrity of the SIP messages and performs SDP encryption/decryption through OTP that used for user authentication. So Proposed method can reduce communication overhead when applying S/MIME or TLS.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.298-305
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• 2014

In this study, a novel Randomly Shifted Certification Authority Authentication protocol was used in ad hoc networks to provide authentication by considering the MAC layer characteristics. The nodes achieve authentication through the use of public key certificates issued by a CA, which assures the certificate's ownership. As a part of providing key management, the active CA node transfers the image of the stored public keys to other idle CA nodes. Finally the current active CA randomly selects the ID of the available idle CA and shifts the CA ownership by transferring it. Revoking is done if any counterfeit or duplicate non CA node ID is found. Authentication and integrity is provided by preventing MAC control packets, and Enhanced Hash Message Authentication Code (EHMAC) can be used. Here EHMAC with various outputs is introduced in all control packets. When a node transmits a packet to a node with EHMAC, verification is conducted and the node replies with the transmitter address and EHMAC in the acknowledgement.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.610-616
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• 2015

In this paper, an electronic ID system satisfying security requirements of authentication certificate was designed using fingerprint recognition. The proposed electronic ID system generates a digital signature with forgery prevention, confidentiality, content integrity, and personal identification (=non-repudiation) using fingerprint information, and also encrypts, sends, and verify it. The proposed electronic ID system exploits fingerprint instead of user password, so it avoids leakage and hijacking. And it provides same legal force as conventional authentication certificate. The proposed electronic ID consists of 4 modules, i.e. HSM device, verification server, CA server, and RA client. Prototypes of all modules are designed and verified to have correct operation.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2004

Ubiquitous sensor network is to manage and collect information autonomously by communicating user around device. Security requirements in Ubiquitous based on sensor network are as follows: a location of sensor, a restriction of performance by low electric power, communication by broadcasting, etc. We propose new mutual authentication protocol using a low power of sensor node. This protocol solved a low power problem by reducing calculation overload of sensor node using two steps, RM(Register Manager) and AM(Authentication Manager). Many operations performing the sensor node itself have a big overload in low power node. Our protocol reduces the operation number from sensor node. Also it is mutual authentication protocol in Ubiquitous network, which satisfies mutual authentication, session key establishment, user and device authentication, MITM attack, confidentiality, integrity, and is safe the security enemy with solving low electric power problem.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.4
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• pp.497-508
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• 2004

The existing wireless LAN standard IEEE802.11b has many vulnerabilities from security point of view. The authentication mechanisms in IEEE802.11b have many vulnerabilities. As a result to complement the weak of IEEE802.11b authentication, the IEEE802.1x had been developed in the sense of providing strong user authentication with appropriate mechanism. But this mechanism does not perform AP authentication and there are also some weak points. And in confidentiality and message Integrity case, WEP is weak from key stream reuse attack, IV reuse attack and so on. For that reason, in this paper we propose secure wireless LAN system. Our system provides strong user authentication, confidentiality, and message integrity based on existing IEEE802.1x framework and TLS.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.759-766
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• 2017

In this paper, we preserve the transparency of digital contents by compressing and storing the medical image for a certain period so as to be safe and robust against various attacks of medical images. The proposed algorithm generates an encrypted image authentication code that extracts the feature value of the original image and combines it with the user's information. in order to extract hidden data, the authentication code is first decrypts the encrypted medical image and extracts the hidden data using the spatial characteristics of image. The proposed algorithm guarantees integrity when comparing extracted authentication code and newly generated authentication code for image authentication after directly inserting it into content itself through watermarking. We have proved various security of attack of image data and proved that the certification rate is improved to 98.4%.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.815-818
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• 2000

As the growth of internet and the diffusion of wide multimedia applications are increased, the ownership verification and authentication in communication channel for a digital image become more important. For these purpose there are many watermarking scheme available for image, video stream and audio data. In this paper we studied on techniques for integrity and authentication of digital images and proposed new watermarking algorithm. The proposed algorithm is implemented in C language on IBM-PC and the test results are shown.