• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.5
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• pp.377-384
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• 2013

In order to improve the security strength in the password based user authentication, in which the security vulnerability is increased while the same password is repeatedly used, the OTP(One-Time Password) system has been introduced. In the OTP systems, however, the user account information and OTP value may be hacked if the user PC is infected by the malicious codes, because the user types the OTP value, which is generated by the mobile device synchronized with the server, directly onto the user PC. In this paper, we propose a new method, called DTOTP(Dual Transmission OTP), to solve this security problem. The DTOTP system is an improved two-factor authentication method by using the dual transmission, in which the user performs the server authentication by typing the user account and password information onto the PC, and then for the OTP authentication the mobile device scans the QR code displayed on the PC and the OTP value is sent to the server directly. The proposed system provides more improved security strength than that of the existing OTP system, and also can adopt the existing OTP algorithm without any modification. As a result, the proposed system can be safely applied to various security services such like banking, portal, and game services.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.6
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• pp.492-500
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• 2013

The One-Time Password(OTP) Generator is used as a multi-factor authentication method to ensure secure transaction during e-Financial transaction in the bank and securities company. The OTP based e-Financial Transaction Verification Protocol ensures secure e-financial transaction through confirming the user's identity using OTP authentication information and counters not only Man-in-the-Browser(MITB) attacks but also memory hacking attacks. However, it is possible to generate correct OTPs due to potential of stealing sensitive information of the OTP generator through intelligent phishing, pharming, social engineering attacks. Therefore, it needs another scheme to prevent from above threats, and this paper proposes advanced scheme using Physical Unclonable Functions(PUFs) to solve these problems. First, it is impossible to generate the same OTP values because of the hysically unclonable features of PUFs. In addition, it is impossible to clone OTP generator with hardware techniques. Consequently, the proposed protocol provides stronger and more robust authentication protocol than existing one by adding PUFs in the OTP generator.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.24-29
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• 2007

The essential factor of ubiquitous is security technology to properly prepare making possible network access, economic and convenient information exchange. This paper proposes an authentication protocol for RFID as one technology to realize such an ubiquitous. The proposed protocol used only the EXOR and the hash function operations reduces operations at RFID tag, which improves stability compared to existing protocols.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.11
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• pp.2221-2234
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• 2011

The fuzzy vault scheme has emerged as a promising solution to user privacy and fingerprint template security problems. Recently, however, the fuzzy vault scheme has been shown to be susceptible to a correlation attack. This paper proposes a novel scheme for one-time templates for fingerprint authentication based on the fuzzy vault scheme. As in one-time passwords, the suggested method changes templates after each completion of authentication, and thus the compromised templates cannot be reused. Furthermore, a huge number of chaff minutiae can be added by expanding the size of the fingerprint image. Therefore, the proposed method can protect a user's fingerprint minutiae against the correlation attack. In our experiments, the proposed approach can improve the security level of a typical approach against brute-force attack by the factor of $10^{34}$.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.38-42
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose 3-factor mobile banking authentication scheme applied to face recognition techniques with existing certificate and OTP. An image of the user's face is captured by smart phone camera and its brightness processing of the contour of a face and background by n of X and Y points. Then, distance between the point of eyes, nose and mouth from captured user's face are compared with stored facial features. When the compared results corresponding to the data that stored in a face recognition DB, the user is authenticated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.154-155
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• 2013

This paper presents a user authentication scheme for healthcare application using wireless sensor networks, where wireless sensors are used for patients monitoring. These medical sensors' sense the patient body data and transmit it to the professionals. Since, the data of an individual are highly vulnerable; it must ensures that patients medical vital signs are secure, and are not exposed to an unauthorized person. In this regards, we propose a user authentication scheme for healthcare application using medical sensor networks. The proposed scheme includes: a novel two-factor user authentication, where the healthcare professionals are authenticated before access the patient's body data; a secure session key is establish between the patient sensor node and the professional at the end of user authentication. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the proposed scheme is safeguard to various practical attacks and achieves efficiency at low computation cost.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.13-21
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• 2006

Though authentication using biometric techniques has conveniences for people, security problems like the leakage of personal bio-information would be serious. Even if cancelable biometric is a good solution for the problems, only a few biometric authentication scheme with cancelable feature has been published. In this paper, we suggest a face authentication scheme with two security factors: password and face image. Using matching algorithm in the permuted domain, our scheme is designed to be cancelable in the sense that templates that is composed of permutation and weight vector can be changed freely.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.57-63
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• 2016

In recent years, there is growing interest in 'Fin-tech' in the domestic and international financial sector. And a variety of services in such a situation has emerged. To ensure the safety of from hacking attacks, many new technologies have been developed. These leading technology is the Bio-authentication method that you consider applying to the financial sector. Bio authentication is using biometric information. Also it is known that can cope the threat of fabrication and modifying attacks with shared and stored. However, Recently, When you look at hacking incidents of biometric data(560 million cases) in the United States Office of Personnel Management and advent of the fingerprints counterfeit technology, We can be known that should be reconsidered about the safety of bio-certification. Especially, it should be provided with a response measures for the problem of embezzlement that biometric information already been leaked. Thereby In this paper, by investigating biometric technologies and practices applied and of the vulnerability factor in many industries, it expected to be utilized in the prepared threats countermeasures in accordance with the application of the biometric authentication technology in a future.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1273-1288
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• 2016

With the swift growth of wireless technologies, an increasing number of users rely on the mobile services which can exchange information in mobile networks. Security is of key issue when a user tries to access those services in this network environment. Many authentication schemes have been presented with the purpose of authenticating entities and wishing to communicate securely. Recently, Chou et al. and Farash-Attari presented two ID authentication schemes. They both claimed that their scheme could withstand various attacks. However, we find that the two authentication schemes are vulnerable to trace attack while having a problem of clock synchronization. Additionally, we show that Farash-Attari's scheme is still susceptible to key-compromise impersonation attack. Therefore, we present an enhanced scheme to remedy the security weaknesses which are troubled in these schemes. We also demonstrate the completeness of the enhanced scheme through the Burrow-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic. Security analysis shows that our scheme prevents the drawbacks found in the two authentication schemes while supporting better secure attributes. In addition, our scheme owns low computation overheads compared with other related schemes. As a result, our enhanced scheme seems to be more practical and suitable for resource-constrained mobile devices in mobile networks.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.13-19
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• 2019

MANET has many security vulnerabilities because it consists of only mobile nodes using wireless. In particular, it is a very important factor determining network performance that excludes the participation of malicious nodes through accurate reliability measurements and authentication of nodes participating in the network. In this paper, we proposed a technique applied with blockchain technology in order to prevent forgery of authentication information for nodes participating in the network. And, an area-based hierarchical structure was applied to increase the efficiency of authentication for nodes and apply the optimal technique of block generation and exchange protocol. In addition, four data payloads were added to the block header in order to add authentication information for nodes in block. To improve the reliability by applying the blockchain technique to the hop-by-hop data transfer method between mobile nodes, blockchain exchange protocol through transaction creation, block packaging and verification processes were implemented. We performed the comparative experiment with the existing methods to evaluate the performance of the proposed method and confirmed the excellent performance by the experiment results.