• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.445-447
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• 2002

Lin 등이 제안한 키 교환 프로토콜 및 SAKA 변형 키 교환 프로토콜은 오프라인 패스워드 추측 공격에 대응하지 못했다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 SAKA 변형 키 교환 프로토콜의 취약점을 해결하기 위한 새로운 키 교환 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안한 프로토콜은 키 검증단계에서 일방향 해쉬 함수를 이용함으로서 기존 프로토콜의 문제점들을 해결하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 프로토콜은 키 교환 프로토콜에서 요구되는 재전송 공격과 오프라인 패스워드 추측 공격에 강한 특징을 갖고 완전한 전방향 보안(perfect forward secrecy)을 제공한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.967-979
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• 2013

Now a day, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being widely used in different areas one of which is healthcare services. A wireless medical sensor network senses patient's vital physiological signs through medical sensor-nodes deployed on patient's body area; and transmits these signals to devices of registered medical professionals. These sensor-nodes have low computational power and limited storage capacity. Moreover, the wireless nature of technology attracts malicious minds. Thus, proper user authentication is a prime concern before granting access to patient's sensitive and private data. Recently, P. Kumar et al. claimed to propose a strong authentication protocol for healthcare using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks (WMSN). However, we find that P. Kumar et al.'s scheme is flawed with a number of security pitfalls. Information stored inside smart card, if extracted, is enough to deceive a valid user. Adversary can not only access patient's physiological data on behalf of a valid user without knowing actual password, can also send fake/irrelevant information about patient by playing role of medical sensor-node. Besides, adversary can guess a user's password and is able to compute the session key shared between user and medical sensor-nodes. Thus, the scheme looses message confidentiality. Additionally, the scheme fails to resist insider attack and lacks user anonymity.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.69-77
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• 2010

Authentication and key establishment are fundamental procedures to establish secure communications over public insecure network. A password-based scheme is common method to provide authentication. In 2008, Khan proposed an efficient password-based authentication scheme using smart cards to solve the problems inherent in Wu-Chieu's authentication scheme. As for security, Khan claimed that his scheme is secure and provides mutual authentication between legal users and a remote server. In this paper, we demonstrate Khan's scheme to be vulnerable to various attacks, i. e., password guessing attack, insider attack, reflection attack and forgery attack. Our study shows that Khan's scheme does not provide mutual authentication and is insecure for practical applications. This paper proposes an improved scheme to overcome these problems and to preserve user anonymity that is an issue in e-commerce applications.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.375-385
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• 2012

The fingerprint is the identity authentication method which is representative uses biometrics. Compared with password methods there is a feature where the dangerousness of embezzling or lossing is few. With like these features using the fingerprint in OTP creations. In this paper, we introduce the developed prototype of OTP system using fingerprint. And the overcome method of OTP system's demerit using fingerprint which extracts few minutiae points into a whole fingerprint image is proposed. A few minutiae points wasn't generated many encryption key for OTP session. The proposed method is overlaid the same fingerprint simply and added many minutiae points as biased overlaid fingerprints. Hence the security of OTP using fingerprint and the randomness over password-guessing are strengthened.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.5556-5573
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• 2017

As a main component of Internet of Things (IoTs), the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely applied to various areas, including environment monitoring, health monitoring of human body, farming, commercial manufacture, reconnaissance mission in military, and calamity alert etc. Meanwhile, the privacy concerns also arise when the users are required to get the real-time data from the sensor nodes directly. To solve this problem, several user authentication and key agreement schemes with a smart card and a password have been proposed in the past years. However, these schemes are vulnerable to some attacks such as offline password guessing attack, user impersonation attack by using attacker's own smart card, sensor node impersonation attack and gateway node bypassing attack. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme which can resist a wide variety of attacks in WSNs. Cryptanalysis and performance analysis show that our scheme can solve the weaknesses of previously proposed schemes and enhance security requirements while maintaining low computational cost.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.105-112
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• 2003

In this raper, we propose two simple and efficient key agreement protocols, called SEKA-H and SEKA-E, which use a pre-shared password between two parties for mutual authentication and agreeing a common session key. The SEKA-H protocol uses a hash function to verify an agreed session key. The SEKA-E Protocol, a variant of SEKA-H, uses an exponentiation operation in the verification phase. They are secure against the man-in-the-middle attack the password guessing attack and the Denning-Sacco attack and provide the perfect forward secrecy. The SEKA-H protocol is very simple in structure and provides good efficiency compared with other well-known protocols. The SEKA-E protocol is also comparable with the previous protocols.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2006

Recently, Sun et el. proposed a three-party authenticated key exchange protocol using the public key of the server and the derived verifier from the Password of a user. This paper proposes a password-based three-party authenticated key exchange protocol using smartcards. Since the proposed protocol has very low computation cost by using XOR and hash function operation instead of the public key operation, and reduces the count of message transmission to 20% compared with the protocol of Sun et el., it can execute an effective authenticated key exchange. Furthermore, the proposed protocol is safe from password guessing attack by not saving passwords in the server, and it is also safe from server compromise attack because the server cannot know the shared session key between the two users.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.223-230
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• 2009

Among the remote user authentication schemes, password-based authentication methods are the most widely used. In 2004, Das et al. proposed a "Dynamic ID Based Remote User Authentication Scheme" that is the password based scheme with smart-cards, and is the light-weight technique using only one-way hash algorithm and XOR calculation. This scheme adopts a dynamic ID that protects against ID-theft attack, and can resist replay attack with timestamp features. Later, many flaws of this scheme were founded that it allows any passwords to be authenticated, and can be vulnerable to impersonation attack, and guessing attack. By this reason many modifications were announced. These scheme including all modifications are similarly maintained security against replay the authentication message attack by the timestamp. But, if advisory can replay the login immediately, this attempt can be succeeded. In this paper, we analyze the security vulnerabilities of Das scheme, and propose improved scheme which can resist on real-time replay attack using the counter of authentication. Besides our scheme still secure against impersonation attack, guessing attack, and also provides mutual authentication feature.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.81-88
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• 2010

Sun et al. proposed a new design of wearable token system for security of mobile devices, such as a notebook and PDA. In this paper, we show that Sun et al.'s system is vulnerable to off-line password guessing attack and man in the middle attack based on known plain-text attack. We propose an improved scheme which overcomes the weaknesses of Sun et al.'s system. The proposed protocol requires to perform one modular multiplication in the wearable token, which has low computation ability, and modular exponentiation in the mobile devices, which have sufficient computing resources. Our protocol has no security problem, which threatens Sun's system, and known vulnerabilities. That is, the proposed protocol overcomes the security problems of Sun's system with minimal overheads.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.249-256
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• 2020

The session initiation protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol, which is used to controlling communication session creation, manage and finish over Internet protocol. Based on it, we can implement various services like voice based electronic commerce or instant messaging. Recently, Qiu et al. proposed an enhanced password authentication scheme for SIP. However, this paper withdraws that Qiu et al.'s scheme is weak against the off-line password guessing attack and has denial of service problem. Addition to this, we propose an improved password authentication scheme as a remedy scheme of Qiu et al.'s scheme. For this, the proposed scheme does not use server's verifier and is based on elliptic curve cryptography. Security validation is provided based on a formal validation tool ProVerif. Security analysis shows that the improved authentication scheme is strong against various attacks over SIP.