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A Polynomial-based Study on the Protection of Consumer Privacy (소비자 프라이버시 보호에 관한 다항식 기반 연구)

  • Piao, Yanji;Kim, Minji
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.145-158
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    • 2020
  • With the development and widespread application of online shopping, the number of online consumers has increased. With one click of a mouse, people can buy anything they want without going out and have it sent right to the doors. As consumers benefit from online shopping, people are becoming more concerned about protecting their privacy. In the group buying scenario described in our paper, online shopping was regarded as intra-group communication. To protect the sensitive information of consumers, the polynomial-based encryption key sharing method (Piao et al., 2013; Piao and Kim, 2018) can be applied to online shopping communication. In this paper, we analyze security problems by using a polynomial-based scheme in the following ways : First, in Kamal's attack, they said it does not provide perfect forward and backward secrecy when the members leave or join the group because the secret key can be broken in polynomial time. Second, for simultaneous equations, the leaving node will compute the new secret key if it can be confirmed that the updated new polynomial is recomputed. Third, using Newton's method, attackers can successively find better approximations to the roots of a function. Fourth, the Berlekamp Algorithm can factor polynomials over finite fields and solve the root of the polynomial. Fifth, for a brute-force attack, if the key size is small, brute force can be used to find the root of the polynomial, we need to make a key with appropriately large size to prevent brute force attacks. According to these analyses, we finally recommend the use of a relatively reasonable hash-based mechanism that solves all of the possible security problems and is the most suitable mechanism for our application. The study of adequate and suitable protective methods of consumer security will have academic significance and provide the practical implications.

The Distributed Authentication and Key Exchange Protocols for Smartcard (스마트카드에 적용가능한 분산형 인증 및 키 교환 프로토콜)

  • Oh Heung-Ryongl;Yoon Ho-Sun;Youm Heung-Youl
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.17-30
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    • 2005
  • A PAK(Password-Authenticated Key Exchange) protocol is used as a protocol to provide both the mutual authentication and allow the communication entities to share the session key for the subsequent secure communication, using the human-memorable portable short-length password, In this paper, we propose distributed key exchange protocols applicable to a smartcard using the MTI(Matsumoto, Takashima, Imai) key distribution protocol and PAK protocol. If only one server keeps the password verification data which is used for password authentication protocol. then It could easily be compromised by an attacker, called the server-compromised attack, which results in impersonating either a user or a server, Therefore, these password verification data should be distributed among the many server using the secret sharing scheme, The Object of this paper Is to present a password-based key exchange protocol which is to allow user authentication and session key distribution, using the private key in a smartcard and a password typed by a user. Moreover, to avoid the server-compromised attack, we propose the distributee key exchange protocols using the MTI key distribution protocol, And we present the security analysis of the proposed key exchange protocol and compare the proposed protocols with the existing protocols.

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Computational Complexity in Imaginary Quadratic Order (이차 복소 order에서의 계산 복잡도에 관한 소고)

  • Kim, Yong-Tae
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.545-551
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose a new cryptosystem based on the IQC depended on the complexity of class number and intractibility of factoring integer, and introduce two algorithm which reduce encryption and decryption times. To recognize the security of the cryptosystem, we take a simple example to analyze the complexities of public key and secret key and then introduce the operating process of the cryptosystem.

Practical Attacks on Hybrid Group Key Management for SOHAN

  • Liew, Jiun-Hau;Ong, Ivy;Lee, Sang-Gon;Lim, Hyo-Taek;Lee, Hoon-Jae
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.549-553
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    • 2010
  • Lim et al. proposed a Hybrid Group Key Management scheme for Hierarchical Self-Organizing Sensor Network in 2008 to provide a secure way to pass down the group key for cluster-based communication. This paper presents two practical attacks on the scheme proposed by Lim et al. by tampering sensor nodes of a cluster to recover necessary secret keys and by exploiting the IDS employed by the scheme. The first attack enables a long-term but slow data fabrication while other attack causes more severe DoS on the access to cluster sensor nodes.

An Authentication Scheme using Polynomial Equation of GF($2^n$) In ZK-Proof Protocol (GF($2^n$)의 다항식을 이용한 영지식 증명의 인증 기법)

  • 이원희;전문석;이철희
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.150-156
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    • 1993
  • This paper studies an Authentication sheme which is used polynomial equation over GF(2n)for reducing time to authenticate sender and his message in secret data communication. Also in order to maintain strong secrecy, this scheme use interactive Zero-knowledge proof protocol for generating information of sender's authentication via unprotected communication channel.

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Group Key Exchange over Combined Wired and Wireless Networks

  • Nam, Jung-Hyun;Won, Dong-Ho
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.461-474
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    • 2006
  • A group key exchange protocol is a cryptographic primitive that describes how a group of parties communicating over a public network can come up with a common secret key. Due to its significance both in network security and cryptography, the design of secure and efficient group key exchange protocols has attracted many researchers' attention over the years. However, despite all the efforts undertaken, there seems to have been no previous systematic look at the growing problem of key exchange over combined wired and wireless networks which consist of both stationary computers with sufficient computational capabilities and mobile devices with relatively restricted computing resources. In this paper, we present the first group key exchange protocol that is specifically designed to be well suited for this rapidly expanding network environment. Our construction meets simplicity, efficiency, and strong notions of security.

A Strong Biometric-based Remote User Authentication Scheme for Telecare Medicine Information Systems with Session Key Agreement

  • An, Younghwa
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2016
  • Recently, many biometrics-based user authentication schemes for telecare medicine information systems (TMIS) have been proposed to improve the security problems in user authentication system. In 2014, Mishra et al. proposed an improvement of Awasthi-Srivastava's biometric based authentication for TMIS which is secure against the various attacks and provide mutual authentication, efficient password change. In this paper, we discuss the security of Mishra et al.'s authentication scheme, and we have shown that Mishra et al.'s authentication scheme is still insecure against the various attacks. Also, we proposed the improved scheme to remove these security problems of Mishra et al.'s authentication scheme, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result, we can see that the improved biometric based authentication scheme is secure against the insider attack, the password guessing attack, the user impersonation attack, the server masquerading attack and provides mutual authentication between the user and the telecare system.

An Improved Biometrics-based Password Authentication Scheme with Session Key Agreement

  • Yang, Hyungkyu
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.50-57
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    • 2016
  • In 2013, Li et al. proposed an improved smart card-based remote user password authentication scheme, and claimed that their scheme not only overcomes security weaknesses of the Chen et al.'s scheme but also is a more user friendly scheme compared with other schemes. In this paper, we analyze the security of Li et al.'s authentication scheme and we show that Li et al.'s authentication scheme is still insecure against the various attacks, such as the off-line password guessing attack, the forgery attack, and the session key generation attack etc. Also, we propose an improved scheme that can resist these security drawbacks of Li et al.'s authentication, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result of security analysis, the improved scheme is relatively more secure against several attacks than other related schemes in terms of the security.

An Improved Smart Card-based User Authentication Scheme with Session Key Agreement for Telecare Medicine Information System

  • Yang, Hyungkyu
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2017
  • In 2013, Lee-Lie proposed secure smart card based authentication scheme of Zhu's authentication for TMIS which is secure against the various attacks and efficient password change. In this paper, we discuss the security of Lee-Lie's smart card-based authentication scheme, and we have shown that Lee-Lie's authentication scheme is still insecure against the various attacks. Also, we proposed the improved scheme to overcome these security problems of Lee-Lie's authentication scheme, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result, we can see that the improved smart card based user authentication scheme for TMIS is secure against the insider attack, the password guessing attack, the user impersonation attack, the server masquerading attack, the session key generation attack and provides mutual authentication between the user and the telecare system.

Wiretapping Strategies for Artificial Noise Assisted Communication in MU-MIMO wiretap channel

  • Wang, Shu;Da, Xinyu;Chu, Zhenyong
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.2166-2180
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    • 2016
  • We investigate the opposite of artificial noise (AN)-assisted communication in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channels for the multiuser case by taking the side of the eavesdropper. We first define a framework for an AN-assisted multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, for which eavesdropping methods are proposed with and without knowledge of legitimate users' channel state information (CSI). The proposed method without CSI is based on a modified joint approximate diagonalization of eigen-matrices algorithm, which eliminates permutation indetermination and phase ambiguity, as well as the minimum description length algorithm, which blindly estimates the number of secret data sources. Simulation results show that both proposed methods can intercept information effectively. In addition, the proposed method without legitimate users' CSI performs well in terms of robustness and computational complexity.