• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.4643-4660
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• 2014

Integrity authentication of biometric data in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a critical issue because the sensitive data transmitted over broadcast wireless channels could be attacked easily. However, traditional cryptograph-based integrity authentication schemes are not suitable for WBAN as they consume much computational resource on the sensor nodes with limited memory, computational capability and power. To address this problem, a novel lightweight integrity authentication scheme based on reversible watermark is proposed for WBAN and implemented on a TinyOS-based WBAN test bed in this paper. In the proposed scheme, the data is divided into groups with a fixed size to improve grouping efficiency; the histogram shifting technique is adopted to avoid possible underflow or overflow; local maps are generated to restore the shifted data; and the watermarks are generated and embedded in a chaining way for integrity authentication. Our analytic and experimental results demonstrate that the integrity of biometric data can be reliably authenticated with low cost, and the data can be entirely recovered for healthcare applications by using our proposed scheme.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.29-38
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• 2002

This paper presents IPv6, ATM, and IP/ATM security systems for computer network. IPv6 uses authentication header and ESP to provide security services. Authentication header provides integrity and authentication services and ESP provides integrity, authentication and confidentiality services. User plan of ATM provides authentication, integrity, confidentiality and access control services and control plan of ATM provides authentication and integrity services. IP/ATM security services are also presented.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.11-18
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• 2019

Previous mutual authentication schemes operate on the basis of validated cryptographic functions and hash functions, but these functions require a certain amount of memory capacity. However, since ultra-lightweight IoT devices have a very small amount of memory capacity, these functions can not be applied. In this paper, we first propose a text steganography communication scheme suitable for ultra-lightweight IoT devices with limited resources, and then propose a mutual authentication scheme based on the text steganography communication. The proposed scheme performs mutual authentication and integrity verification using very small amount of memory. For evaluation, we implemented the proposed scheme on Arduino boards and confirmed that the proposed scheme performs well the mutual authentication and the integrity verification functions.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.59-67
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• 2015

A novel authentication mechanism is biometric authentication where users are identified by their measurable human characteristics, such as fingerprint, voiceprint, and iris scan. The technology of biometrics is becoming a popular method for engineers to design a more secure user authentication scheme. In terms of physiological and behavioral human characteristics, biometrics is used as a form of identity access management and access control, and it services to identity individuals in groups that are under surveillance. In this article, we review the biometric-based authentication protocol by Althobati et al. and provide a security analysis on the scheme. Our analysis shows that Althobati et al.'s scheme does not guarantee server-to-user authentication. The contribution of the current work is to demonstrate this by mounting threat of data integrity and bypassing the gateway node on Althobati et al.'s scheme. In addition, we analysis the security vulnerabilities of Althobati et al.'s protocol.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.3-13
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• 2017

As security log plays important roles in various fields, the integrity of log data become more and more important. Especially, the stored log data is an immediate target of the intruder to erase his trace in the system penetrated. Several theoretical schemes to guarantee the forward secure integrity have been proposed, even though they cannot provide the integrity of the log data after the system is penetrated. Authentication tags of these methods are based on the linear-hash chain. In this case, it is difficult to run partial validation and to accelerate generating and validating authentication tags. In this paper, we propose a log authentication mechanism, based on Mekle Tree, which is easy to do partial validation and able to apply multi threading.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.115-123
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• 2017

The mutual cooperation among nodes is very important because mobile nodes participating in MANET communicate with limited resources and wireless environment. This characteristic is important especially in environment that supports group communication. In order to support the secure multicast environment, it is important enough to affect performance to provide accurate authentication method for multicast group members and increase the integrity of transmitted data. Therefore, we propose a technique to provide the multicast secure communication by providing efficient authentication and group key management for multicast member nodes in this paper. The cluster structure is used for authentication of nodes in the proposed technique. In order to efficient authentication of nodes, the reliability is measured using a combination of local trust information and global trust information measured by neighboring nodes. And issuing process of the group key has two steps. The issued security group key increases the integrity of the transmitted data. The superiority of the proposed technique was confirmed by comparative experiments.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2405-2423
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• 2012

In a traditional Single Sign-On (SSO) scheme, the user and the Service Providers (SPs) have given their trust to the Identity Provider (IdP) or Authentication Service Provider (ASP) for the authentication and correct assertion. However, we still need a better solution for the local/native true SSO to gain user confidence, whereby the trusted entity must play the role of the ASP between distinct SPs. This technical gap has been filled by Trusted Computing (TC), where the remote attestation approach introduced by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is to attest whether the remote platform integrity is indeed trusted or not. In this paper, we demonstrate a Trustworthy Mutual Attestation (TMutualA) protocol as a proof of concept implementation for a local true SSO using the Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) with the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). In our proposed protocol, firstly, the user and SP platform integrity are checked (i.e., hardware and software integrity state verification) before allowing access to a protected resource sited at the SP and releasing a user authentication token to the SP. We evaluated the performance of the proposed TMutualA protocol, in particular, the client and server attestation time and the round trip of the mutual attestation time.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.61-68
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• 2015

MANET has various vulnerability in wireless network and is more vulnerable in security because central management is not performed. In particular, routing attack may decrease performance of the overall network because the mobile node acts as a router. In this paper, we proposed authentication technique for improving the reliability of the network by increasing the integrity of the routing control packet and blocking effectively attacks that occur frequently in the inside. The proposed technique is consisted of two authentication methods of ZCN and N2N. ZCN authentication method is to elect CA nodes and monitor the role of the CA nodes. N2N authentication method is for an integrity check on the routing packets between nodes. Index key is determined by combining the hop count value to shared key table issued from CA in order to increase the robustness of the internal attack. Also, the overhead of key distribution was reduced by distributing a shared key to nodes certificated from CA. The excellent performance of the proposed method was confirmed through the comparison experiments.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.85-90
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• 2018

Blockchain technology provides distributed trust structure; with this, we can implement a system that cannot be forged and make Smart Contract possible. With blockchain technology emerging as next generation security technology, there have been studies on authentication and security services that ensure integrity. Although Internet-based services have been going with user authentication with password, the information can be stolen through a client and a network and the server is exposed to hacking. For the reason, we suggest blockchain technology and OTP based authentication mechanism to ensure integrity. In particular, the Two-Factor Authentication is able to ensure secure authentication by combining OTP authentication and biometric authentication without using password. As the suggested authentication applies multiple hash functions and generates transactions to be placed in blocks in order for biometric information not to be identified, it is protected from server attacks by being separate from the server.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.139-146
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• 2020

Cloud computing technology provides economic and efficient system operation and management features to deal with rapidly changing IT technologies. However, this is less used in institutes and companies due to low security of cloud computing service. It is recognized that storing and managing important information, which is confidential in external systems is vulnerable to security threats. In order to enhance security of this cloud computing service, this paper suggests a system and user authentication reinforcement model. The suggested technology guarantees integrity of user authentication information and provides users with convenience by creating blocks for each cloud service and connecting service blocks with chains. The block chain user authentication model offers integrity assurance technology of block chains and system access convenience for SSO users. Even when a server providing cloud computing is invaded, this prevents chained invasions not to affect other systems.