• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.389-395
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• 2014

In a biometric signature scheme, a user's biometric key is used to sign the document. It also requires the user be authenticated with biometric recognition method, prior to signing the document. Because the biometric recognition is launched every time the signature session started, it is not suitable for electronic commerce applications such as shopping malls where large number of documents to sign are required. Therefore, to commercialize biometric based signature schemes, the new proxy signature scheme is needed to ease the burden of the signer. In the proxy signature scheme, the signer can delegate signing activities to trustful third parties. In this study, the biometric based signature delegation method is proposed. The proposed scheme is suitable for applications where a lot of signing are required. It is consisted of biometric key generation, PKI based mutual authentication, signature generation and verification protocols.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.201-208
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• 2010

We propose a new notion of metered signatures. Metered signature is an extension of k-times signatures in which a signer can generate only k signatures. However, the restriction of metered signatures can be more elaborate: It can be used k-times every day or to preserve the order of signed messages in some applications. Any violation of this regulation reveals a secret key or the signature on a predetermined message. The applications includes proxy signatures, limited free downloads, and the rating web site. We give two instances of metered signatures: One is based on the computational Diffie-Hellman problem (CDHP) using a bilinear map and the other is based on the RSA problem. In both schemes, the signature and certificate size and the verification cost are constant with respect to k. Further, we show that the proposed metered signatures admit batch verification of many signatures almost at one verification cost with small security loss.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.55-67
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• 2007

In ad hoc network, especially in the environment which the system authority only exists at the beginning of the network, it is very important problem how to issue the certificates in self-initialized public key scheme that a node generates its certificate with public and private key pair and is signed that by the system authority. In order to solve this problem, early works present some suggestions; remove the system authority itself and use certificate chain, or make nodes as system authorities for other nodes' certificates. In this paper, we suggest another solution, which can solve many problem still in those suggestions, using proxy signature and threshold signature, and prove its performance using simulation and analyse its security strength in many aspects.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.167-172
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• 2013

In a paper recently published in the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, Biswas et al. proposed a VANET message authentication scheme which uses an identity-based proxy signature mechanism as an underlying primitive. The authors claimed that their scheme supports various security features including the security of proxy-key, the security against message forgery and the security against replay attack, with non-repudiation and resistance to proxy-key compromise. Here, we show how an active attacker, who has no knowledge of an original message sender's private key, can compute the proxy-signature key of the corresponding message sender, meaning that the scheme is completely insecure. We also suggest an enhanced version of the protocol capable of solving such serious security holes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.116-119
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• 2003

대리 서명은 디지털 서명 기술의 응용으로서 Mambo에 의하여 최초로 제안이 되었고, Araki에 의하여 다단계 대리 서명으로 확장되었다. 본 논문에서는 위임 인증서와 서명 검증자의 서명 생성 여부를 원 서명자가 추후 확인하는 프로토콜을 이용하여 부인 봉쇄 및 원 서명자의 보호가 이루어지는 효율적이고 안정적인 다단계 대리 서명 방식을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.75-86
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• 2014

Demand for the femtocell is largely credited to the surge in a more always best connected communication conscious public. 3GPP defines new architecture and security requirement for Release 9 to deal with femtocell, Home eNode B referred as HeNB. In this paper, we analyze the HeNB security with respect to mutual authentication, access control, and secure key agreement. Our analysis pointed out that a number of security vulnerabilities have still not been addressed and solved by 3GPP technical specification. These include eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attack, compromising subscriber access list, and masquerading as valid HeNB. To the best of our knowledge, any related research studying HeNB security was not published before. Towards this end, this paper proposes an improved authentication and key agreement mechanism for HeNB which adopts proxy-signature and proxy-signed proxy-signature. Through our elaborate analysis, we conclude that the proposed not only prevents the various security threats but also accomplishes minimum distance from use-tolerable authentication delay.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.251-253
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• 2003

권한 위임은 일상에서 흔히 발생하는 사건으로서, 특히, 군대, 기업, 은행 등의 계층 그룹에서는 계층간 권한 위임이 자연스럽고 빈번하게 발생한다. 대리서명(proxy signature)은 서명 권한을 위임받은 대리서명자가 원 서명자를 대신하여 유효한 전자서명을 생성하고 검증할 수 있는 전자서명 프로토콜이다. 계층 구조를 갖는 B2B 전자 거래 및 전자서명의 활용 범위가 다양화됨에 따라 이를 반영하는 보다 안전한 대리서명이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 계층 그룹에서 반복적 권한 위임을 허용하는 새로운 임계 대리서명 프로토콜을 제안한다. 한 명의 대리서명자가 아닌 복수의 대리서명자가 모여 원 서명자를 대신해 하나의 유효한 대리서명을 생성할 수 있게 함으로써, 보다 강화된 안전성을 제공한다. 대리서명 생성을 위한 권한 위임은 위임티켓을 통해 계층 구조의 상위 계층에서 하위 계층으로 이루어지고, 위임받은 대리서명자들 중에서 서명에 참여할 수 없는 대리서명자는 다시 자신의 하위 계층 참가자들에게 개별 위임을 수행할 수 있도록 함으로써, 반복적 권한 위임을 허용한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.17-25
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• 2007

Delegation of signing capability is a common practice in various applications. Mambo et al. proposed a proxy signatures as a solutions for delegation of signing capability. Proxy signatures allow a designated proxy signer to sign on behalf of an original signer. After the concept of proxy signature scheme is proposed, many variants are proposed to support more general delegation setting. To capture all possible delegation structures, the concept of delegation network was proposed by Aura. ID-based cryptography, which is suited for flexible environment, is desirable to construct a delegation network. Chow et al proposed an ID-based delegation network. In the computational point of view, their solution requires E pairing operations and N elliptic curve scalar multiplications where E and N are the number of edges and nodes in a delegation structure, respectively. In this paper, we proposed an efficient ID-based delegation network which requires only E pairing operations. Moreover, we can design a modified delegation network that requires only N pairing operations.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.173-179
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• 2013

In a biometric authentication scheme, a user's biometric data that is unique to the user is used to prove the user's identity to the third party. Since the user should have to participate in every authentication sessions, it's not possible to delegate other users to authenticate instead of himself/herself. In a biometric signature scheme, contrary to authentication scheme, a user's biometric data is used to prove that "this message is signed by the signer who claims to be" to the third party. However, once the biometric key is created, it can be accessed by the signer. Thus, it's possible to lend the biometric key to other users. In this study, the server based biometric realtime signature scheme is proposed. The proposed scheme can be applied to sign the vote in electronic voting or to authenticate the copyright owner in DRM enabled mobile commerce where the proxy signatures are not allowed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.215-222
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• 2012

A smart phone has functions of both telephone and computer. The wide spread use of smart phones has sharply increased the demand for mobile commerce. The smart phone based mobile services are available anytime, anywhere. In commercial transactions, a digital signature scheme is used to make legally binding signature to prove both integrity of commercial document and verification of the signer. Smart phones are more risky compared with personal computers on the problems of how to protect privacy information. It's also easy to let proxy user to authenticate instead of the smart phone owner. In existing password or token based schemes, the ID is not physically bound to the owner. Thus, those schemes can not solve the problem of proxy authentication. To utilize the smart phone as the platform of mobile commerce, a study on the new type of authentication scheme is needed where the scheme should provide protocol to get legally binding signature and not to authenticate proxy user. In this paper, we create the mobile ID by using both the USIM and voice template of the smart phone owner. We also design and implement the user authentication scheme based on the mobile ID.