• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.1235-1243
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to find if the password composition of domestic users is affected by the different form of the word 'Password' in the interface of login or password change. In particular, 'Password', foreign notation, and 'Secret Number', notation translated by Korean, have a semantic difference. According to the survey of 200 students in S university, passwords made under the word 'Secret Number' are heavy on numbers than alphabet. Because these passwords make much smaller composition space than another case, they have bad security impact. We expect to make use of this paper as a base line data for study to find how improve domestic user's password security.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.17-22
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• 2017

In this paper, a password recognition system that can overcome a shoulder-surfing attack is developed. During the time period of password insertion, the developed system can prevent the attack and enhance the safety of the password. In order to raise the detection rate of the password image, the mopology technique is utilized. By adapting 4 times of the expansion and dilation, the niose from the binary image of the password is removed. Finally, the mobile phone application is also developed to recognize the one time password and the detection rate is measured. It is shown that the detection rate of 90% is achieved under the dark light condition.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.125-134
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• 2018

Lamport firstly suggested password base authentication scheme and then, similar authentication schemes have been studied. Due to the development of Internet network technology, remote user authentication using smart card has been studied. Li et al. analyzed authentication scheme of Chen et al. and then, Li et al. found out the security weakness of Chen et al.'s scheme such forward secrecy and the wrong password login problem, and proposed an a new smart card based user password authentication scheme. But Liu et al. found out that Li et al.'s scheme still had security problems such an insider attack and man-in-the-middle attack and then Liu et al. proposed an efficient and secure smart card based password authentication scheme. This paper analyzed Liu et al.'s authentication and found out that Liu et al.'s authentication has security weakness such as no perfect forward secrecy, off-line password guessing attack, smart-card loss attack, and no anonymity. And then, this paper proposed security enhanced efficient smart card based password authentication scheme using fuzzy extraction technology.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.23-36
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• 2004

This paper presents a password based authentication and key exchange protocol which can be used for both authenticating users and exchanging session keys for a subsequent secure communication over an untrusted network. Our idea is to increase a randomness of the password verification data, i.e., we split the password, and then amplify the split passwords in the high entropy-structured password verification data. And in order to prevent the verifier-compromised attack, we construct our system such that the password verification data is encrypted with the verifier's key and the private key of verifier used to encrypt it is stored in a secure place like a smart cards. Also we propose the distributed password authentication scheme utilizing many authentication servers in order to prevent the server-compromised attack occurred when only one server is used. Furthermore, the security analysis on the proposed protocol has been presented as a conclusion.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.58-66
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• 2021

The user's password must be encrypted one-way through the hash function and stored in the database. Widely used hash functions such as MD5 and SHA-1 have also been found to have vulnerabilities, and hash functions that are considered safe can also have vulnerabilities over time. Salt enhances password security by adding it before or after the password before putting it to the hash function. In the case of the existing Salt, even if it is randomly assigned to each user, once it is assigned, it is a fixed value in a specific column of the database. If the database is exposed to an attacker, it poses a great threat to password cracking. In this paper, we suggest variable-dynamic Salt that dynamically changes according to the user's password during the login process. The variable-dynamic Salt can further enhance password security during login process by making it difficult to know what the Salt is, even if the database or source code is exposed.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.291-298
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• 2002

Mutual authentication is essential for key exchange protocols and password-based authentication scheme is used widely, which is convenient to users and executed on the cheap. Password-based protocol should be not only secure against attach but also efficient to reduce user's load. In this paper, we propose a new key exchange protocol, called OTP-EKE(One Time Password based Encrypted Key Exchange), to provide authentication and to share a session key between a server and a user. We choose a password-based scheme as a user authentication. Especially, we use a one-time-password verifier and server's public password to protect against attacks on server's directory. As for efficiency, we improve the performance by reducing the number of modular exponentiations and the number of rounds.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.173-181
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• 2011

User authentication and key exchange protocols are the most important cryptographic applications. For user authentication, most protocols are based on the users' secret passwords. However, protocols based on the users' secret passwords are vulnerable to the password guessing attack. In 1992, Bellovin and Merritt proposed an EKE(Encrypted Key Exchange) protocol for user authentication and key exchage that is secure against password guessing attack. After that, many enhanced and secure EKE protocols are proposed so far. In 2006, Lo pointed out that Yeh et al.'s password-based authenticated key exchange protocol has a security weakness and proposed an improved protocol. However, Cao and Lin showed that his protocol is also vulnerable to off-line password guessing attack. In this paper, we show his protocol is vulnerable to on-line password guessing attack using new attack method, and propose an improvement of password authenticated key exchange protocol for imbalanced wireless networks secure against password guessing attack.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.867-875
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• 2014

Rapid development of internet service is enabling internet banking services in anywhere and anytime. However, service access through internet can be exposed to adversary easily. To prevent, current service providers execute authentication process with user's identification and password. However, majority of users use short and simple password and do not periodically change their password. As a result of this, user's password could be exposed to attacker's brute force attack. In this paper, we presented enhanced password system which guarantee higher security even though users do not change their current password. The method uses additional secret information to replace real password periodically without replacement of real password.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.8
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• pp.1597-1605
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• 2015

Password authenticated key exchange (PAKE) is a protocol that a client stores its password to a server, authenticates itself using its password and shares a session key with the server. In multi-server PAKE, a client splits its password and stores them to several servers separately. Unless all the servers are compromised, client's password will not be disclosed in the multi-server setting. In attribute-based encryption (ABE), a sender encrypts a message M using a set of attributes and then a receiver decrypts it using the same set of attributes. In this paper, we introduce multi-server PAKE protocol that utilizes a set of attributes of ABE as a client's password. In the protocol, the client and servers do not need to create additional public/private key pairs because the password is used as a set of public keys. Also, the client and the servers exchange only one round-trip message per server. The protocol is secure against dictionary attacks. We prove our system is secure in a proposed threat model. Finally we show feasibility through evaluating the execution time of the protocol.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.166-169
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• 2006

Almost all network systems provide an authentication mechanism based on user ID and password. In such system, it is easy to obtain the user password using a sniffer program with illegal eavesdropping. The one-time password and challenge-response method are useful authentication schemes that protect the user passwords against eavesdropping. In client/server environments, the one-time password scheme using time is especially useful because it solves the synchronization problem. In this paper, we present a new identification scheme: OPI(One Pass Identification). The security of OPI is based on the square root problem, and OPI is secure: against the well known attacks including pre-play attack, off-line dictionary attack and server comprise. A number of pass of OPI is one, and OPI processes the password and does not need the key. We think that OPI is excellent for the consuming time to verify the prover.