• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.65-73
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• 2012

The traditional text-based password is vulnerable guessing, dictionary attacks, keyloggers, social engineering, stole view, etc. these vulnerability effect more serious problem in a mobile environment. In this study, By using the pattern number to enter the password of an existing four-digit numeric password, User easily use to new password system. The technology on pattern based numerical password authorization proposed in this paper would intensify the security of password which holds existing 10 numbers of cases by authorizing a user and would not invade convenience of use by providing high security and making users memorize only four numbers like old method. Making users not have inconvenience and raising complexity, it would have a strength to an shoulder surfing attack of an attacker. So I study password system that represents the shape-based of number. I propose the new password system to prevent peeking attacks and Brute-force attack, and this proposal is to review the security and usability.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.97-104
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• 2015

This paper will feature designs for security vulnerability based on MS-SQL Database and OLE connectivity by checking the MS-SQL database password policy, the user account password access attempts, a user without password, and password does not be changed for a period of time. This paper uses the MS-SQL database and C++ linkage in order to use the OLE DB function. The design module should judge presence or absence of security vulnerability by checking database password policy, the user account password access attempts, a user without password, password does not be changed for a period of time. The MS-SQL database password associated with a feature, judging from the many features allows you to check for security vulnerability. This paper strengthen the security of the MS-SQL database by taking the advantage of the proposed ability.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.1790-1795
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• 2004

In this paper, the new password system called SPS(Secure Password System) in order to enhance the security of the system as well as to improve the weakness of the password which is very easy to be disclosed by other people, improving the methods which is identifying the users' legality using the computer system in the multi-users computer. SPS is adopting several strong points such as Easy Embodiment, Low Cost, and most of the good points of the traditional password system. In addition, it makes an easy introduction from the traditional password system. Above SPS has the high stable security in the practical experiments about both the literal attack of the online intruders and the exposure of Clients' password.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.139-150
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• 2009

Authentication and key exchange are fundamental for establishing secure communication channels over public insecure networks. Password-based protocols for authenticated key exchange are designed to work even when user authentication is done via the use of passwords drawn from a small known set of values. There have been many protocols proposed over the years for password authenticated key exchange in the three-party scenario, in which two clients attempt to establish a secret key interacting with one same authentication server. However, little has been done for password authenticated key exchange in the more general and realistic four-party setting, where two clients trying to establish a secret key are registered with different authentication servers. In fact, the recent protocol by Yeh and Sun seems to be the only password authenticated key exchange protocol in the four-party setting. But, the Yeh-Sun protocol adopts the so called "hybrid model", in which each client needs not only to remember a password shared with the server but also to store and manage the server's public key. In some sense, this hybrid approach obviates the reason for considering password authenticated protocols in the first place; it is difficult for humans to securely manage long cryptographic keys. In this work, we introduce a key agreement protocol and a key distribution protocol, respectively, that requires each client only to remember a password shared with its authentication server.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.17-27
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• 2020

Many users are using password managers in order to conveniently manage several usernames and passwords needed to access the web sites. The password manager encrypts and stores several passwords on the server, and the user accesses the server to receive the password information. Thus, if an attacker can sniff a message between the password manager and the server and decrypt the message content, or if an attacker can steal the computer's memory and decrypt the message content, then all the passwords will be exposed to the attacker. In this paper, we analyze the client-server communications and encryption process of password mangers and show there is a serious vulnerability in memory attack.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.97-104
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose Recoverable Password Based Key Exchange Protocol(RPKEP). RPKEP has user who has password, server which share the secret key information with user, and password recovery agency(PRA) which help to recover the user\`s password. Proposed protocol has some advantages that it is secure against off-line dictionary attack which is considered most important in password based key exchange protocol and suer\`s security is preserved even though user\`s secret information stored in the server is disclosed. By applying Chaum\`s blind signature scheme in the process of password recovery, even the PRA can\`t obtain any information about user\`s password.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.9
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• pp.215-224
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• 2012

Using password on system is easy to build and shorten the access time to authorize user, which is high in use for vary system that requires users' authorization. Many input device are able to perform the password system easily, such as PC, smart-phone, tablet PC, etc. Beside the high usability of password, physical attack occurs when user put their password on the device, known as Shoulder Surfing attack. It used to be formed in numbers, characters or mix of different kinds, but new kind of password arose. Exploiting image or making scenarios are those kinds which are able to reflect users' intentions. Not many estimation exists for new password, so there's need to be standard for those new password for highlighting usability and accessability. In this paper, we propose password system with simple image and switching key-board to test statistical method to estimate usability on the password.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.961-972
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• 2016

For securing password-based authentication, a user must select and manage a strong password that has sufficient length and randomness. Unfortunately, however, it is known that many users are likely to choose easy-to-remember weak passwords and very poorly manage them. In this paper, we study a domestic user case of password selection and management. We conducted a survey on 327 domestic users and analyzed their tendency on password creation and update strategies, and also on the password structure and account management. We then analyzed an effect of a server's password creation rule on a structure of a user-chosen password. Our findings include that there are password structures and special characters that users significantly prefer while the effect of server's password creation rule is insignificant.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.33-41
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• 2011

Although conventional text-based passwords are used as the most common authentication method, they have significant drawbacks such as guess attacks, dictionary attacks, key loggers, and shoulder-surfing. To address the vulnerabilities of traditional text-based passwords, graphical password schemes have been developed as possible alternative solutions, but they have a potential drawback that they are more vulnerable to shoulder-surfing than conventional text-based passwords. In this paper, we present a new Hangul password input method to prevent shoulder-surfing attacks. Our approach uses Hangul as a password, and it requires the users to locate their password in the given wheeling password grid instead of entering the password. Our approach makes it difficult for attackers to observe a user's password since the system shows the users' passwords with decoy characters as the noise on the screen. Also, we provide security analysis for random attacks, dictionary attacks, and shoulder-surfing attacks, and it shows that our password system is robust against these attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.171-181
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• 2012

This paper defines the AES password algorithm used as a symmetric-key-based password algorithm, and proposes the design of parallel password algorithm to utilize the resources of multi-core processor as much as possible. The proposed parallel password algorithm was confirmed for parallel execution of password computation by allocating the password algorithm according to the number of cores, and about 30% of performance increase compared to AES password algorithm. The encryption/decryption performance of the password algorithm was confirmed through binary comparative analysis tool, which confirmed that the binary results were the same for AES password algorithm and proposed parallel password algorithm, and the decrypted binary were also the same. The parallel password algorithm for multi-core environment proposed in this paper can be applied to authentication/payment of financial service in PC, laptop, server, and mobile environment, and can be utilized in the area that required high-speed encryption operation of large-sized data.