• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.139-147
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• 2010

A remote user authentication scheme is a two-party protocol whereby an authentication server in a distributed system confirms the identity of a remote individual logging on to the server over an untrusted, open network. In 2005, Liao et al. proposed a remote user authentication scheme using a smart card, in which users can be authenticated anonymously. Recently, Yoon et al. have discovered some security flaws in Liao et al.'s authentication scheme and proposed an improved version of this scheme to fix the security flaws. In this article, we review the improved authentication scheme by Yoon et al. and provide a security analysis on the scheme. Our analysis shows that Yoon et al.'s scheme does not guarantee not only any kind of authentication, either server-to-user authentication or user-to-server authentication but also password security. The contribution of the current work is to demonstrate these by mounting two attacks, a server impersonation attack and a user impersonation attack, and an off-line dictionary attack on Yoon et al.'s scheme. In addition, we propose the enhanced authentication scheme that eliminates the security vulnerabilities of Yoon et al.'s scheme.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.349-357
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• 2017

Many Web sites adopt SMS(Short Message Service)-based user authentication when a user loses her password or approves an online payment. In SMS-based authentication, the authentication server sends a text in plaintext to a user's phone, and it allows an attacker who eavesdrops or intercepts the text to impersonate a valid user(victim). We propose a challenge-response scheme to prove to the authentication server that a user is in a certain place at the moment with her smartphone beside her. The proposed scheme generates a response using a challenge by the server, user's current location, and a secret on the user's smartphone all together. Consequently, the scheme is much more secure than SMS-based authentication that simply asks a user to send the same text arrived on her phone back to the server. In addition to entering the response, which substitutes the SMS text, the scheme also requests a user to input a passphrase to get the authentication process started. We believe, however, the additional typing should be tolerable to most users considering the enhanced security level of the scheme.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.571-578
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• 2017

In order to approach information system through smart device and pc, user has to authenticate him or herself via user authentication. At that time when user tries reaching the system, well-used user authentication technologies are ID/PW base, OTP, certificate, security card, fingerprint, etc. The ID/PWbased method is familiar to users, however, it is vulnerable to brute force cracking, keylogging, dictionary attack. so as to protect these attacks, user has to change the passwords periodically as per password combination instructions. In this paper, we designed and implemented a user authentication system using smartphone's USIM without using password while enhancing security than existing ID / PW based authentication technology.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.12
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• pp.2167-2176
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• 2016

In the multi-server environment, remote user authentication has a very critical issue because it provides the authorization that enables users to access their resource or services. For this reason, numerous remote user authentication schemes have been proposed over recent years. Recently, Lin et al. have shown that the weaknesses of Baruah et al.'s three factors user authentication scheme for multi-server environment, and proposed an enhanced biometric-based remote user authentication scheme. They claimed that their scheme has many security features and can resist various well-known attacks; however, we found that Lin et al.'s scheme is still insecure. In this paper, we demonstrate that Lin et al.'s scheme is vulnerable against the outsider attack and user impersonation attack, and propose a new biometric-based scheme for authentication and key agreement that can be used in the multi-server environment. Lastly, we show that the proposed scheme is more secure and can support the security properties.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.157-161
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• 2006

GSM(Global System for Mobile communications) that is the most popular standard for mobile phones, has more than 70% users in the world and the number of users increase continuously. However GSM system has the problem that cannot normally authenticate a user by the exposure of IMSI that is able to uniquely authenticate MS? during the user authentication procedure. In this paper? we provide security enhancement and user privacy by adopting a temporary id and an encryption scheme. Moreover we provide fast user authentication via architecture modification of the conventional GSM user authentication protocol.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.1655-1662
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• 2007

Although the PKl-based user authentication solution has been widely used, the security of it can be deteriorated by a simple password. This is because a long and random private key may be protected by a short and easy-to-remember password. To handle this problem, many biometric-based user authentication solutions have been proposed. However, protecting biometric data is another research issue because the compromise of the biometric data will be permanent. In this paper, we present an implementation to improve the security of the typical PKI-based authentication by protecting the private key with a fingerprint. Compared to the unilateral authentication provided by the typical biometric-based authentication, the proposed solution can provide the mutual authentication. In addition to the increased security, this solution can alleviate the privacy issue of the fingerprint data by conglomerating the fingerprint data with the private key and storing the conglomerated data in a user-carry device such as a smart card. With a 32-bit ARM7-based smart card and a Pentium 4 PC, the proposed fingerprint-based PKI authentication can be executed within 1.3second.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.501-508
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• 2015

Most web sites, information systems use the ID/Password technique to identify and authenticate users. But ID/Password technique is vulnerable to security. The user must remember the ID/Password and, the password should include alphabets, numbers, and special characters, not to be predicted easily. User also needs to change your password periodically. In this paper, we propose the user authentication method that the user authentication information stored in the external storage to authenticate a user. If another person knows the ID/Password, he can't log in a system without the external storage. Whenever a user logs in a system, authentication information is generated, and is stored in the external storage. Therefore, the proposed user authentication method is the traditional ID/Password security technique, but it enhances security and, increases user convenience.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.207-210
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• 2003

For the effective use of information in the information society, information should be protected and outflow of information by illegal users should be prevented. This study sets up user authentication policy, user authentication regulations and procedures for information protection and builds information protection key distribution center and encryption user Authentication system, which can protect information from illegal users.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.15-22
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• 2018

As smart devices become popular, users can use authentication services in various methods. Authentication services include authentication using an ID and a password, authentication using a sms, and authentication using an OTP(One Time Password). This paper proposed an authentication system that solves the security problem of knowledge-based authentication using optical character recognition and can easily and quickly authenticate users. The proposed authentication system extracts a character from an uploaded image by a user and authenticates the user using the extracted character information. The proposed authentication system has the advantage of not using a password or an OTP that are easily exposed or lost, and can not be authenticated without using accurate photographs. The proposed authentication system is platform independent and can be used for user authentication, file encryption and decryption.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.127-137
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• 2019

The growth in smartphone service has given rise to an increase in frequency and importance of authentication. Existing smartphone authentication mechanisms such as passwords, pattern lock and fingerprint recognition require a high level of awareness and authenticate users temporarily with a point-of-entry techniques. To overcome these disadvantages, there have been active researches in behavior-based authentication. However, previous studies focused on enhancing the accuracy of the authentication. Since authentication is directly used by people, it is necessary to reflect actual users' perception. This paper proposes user perception on behavior-based authentication with feature analysis. We conduct user survey to empirically understand user perception regarding behavioral authentication with selected authentication features. Then, we analyze acceptance of the behavioral authentication to provide continuous authentication with minimal awareness while using the device.