• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.427-432
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• 2010

The fast-emerging of cloud computing technology today has sufficiently benefited its wide range of users from individuals to large organizations. It carries an attractive characteristic by renting myriad virtual storages, computing resources and platform for users to manipulate their data or utilize the processing resources conveniently over Internet without the need to know the exact underlying infrastructure which is resided remotely at cloud servers. However due to the loss of direct control over the systems/applications, users are concerned about the risks of cloud services if it is truly secured. In the literature, there are cases where attackers masquerade as cloud users, illegally access to their accounts, by stealing the static login password or breaking the poor authentication gate. In this paper, we propose a two-factor authentication framework to enforce cloud services' authentication process, which are Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) authentication and mobile out-of-band (OOB) authentication. We discuss the framework's security analysis in later session and conclude that it is robust to phishing and replay attacks, prohibiting fraud users from accessing to the cloud services.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 2006

If a mobile node out of home domain asks to provide mobility service, the mobile should be permitted by the home domain. This can be accomplished by the usage of AAA but the recent studies have shown its weakness to fail the ability of mobile node. This study suggests Fast Handoff model which will shorten permission time by AAA and allow the mobility service to be more efficient. Our suggestion with Assertion function is a new approach to assist authentication capability through mutual authentication of each V_AAA when the distance between HA and itself gets far or its delay time becomes longer. Our suggestion verifies its efficiency by cost analysis.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.327-338
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• 2005

Since the IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs were known to have several critical weaknesses in the aspect of security, a lot of works have been done to reduce such weaknesses of the wireless LAN security, Among them IEEE 802.lli may be the ultimate long-term solution that requires new security platform with new wireless LAM products. However, it might not be the best solution for small organizations due to its high cost where the cost is a critical issue. This paper proposes FR-WEP, a light-weight key management for wireless LANs that can be used with small changes of the existing Products. FR-WEP is an extension to a lightweight key management, WEP'(9), which was proposed lately. It makes up for the weak points of WEP' by providing lightweight mutual authentication with both host keys and user keys, and seamless key-refresh for authenticated users with fast re-authentication. It would be a good alternative to the heavy standards for wireless LAN security, especially to small organizations hoping for better security.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.617-624
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• 2015

In this paper, an adult authentication system based on authentication certificate was designed and implemented using smartphone and near-field communication. It has three advantages. First, it achieves easy, convenient, and fast authentication by using smartphone and near-field communication. Second, it achieves extremely high security and reliability by exploiting authentication certificate. Third, it achieves extremely low risk of personal information leakage by generating and sending only virtual identification code. Finally, it has a proper legal basis by Digital Signature Act. It consists of adult authentication module, near-field communication control module, policy server module, and database server module. A prototype of the proposed system was designed and implemented, and it was verified to have correct operation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.107-112
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• 2003

Handover in IEEE 802.11 requires repeated authentication and key exchange procedures, which are an obstacle to seamless services of wireless LAM. We propose a fast authentication and key exchange mechanism using IEEE 802.11f. Especially, by proposing a modified version of the 4-way handshake of IEEE 802.11i, we solve the perfect forward secrecy problem that arises when the pre-authentication is adopted. The scheme can be implemented only using the Context Block of IEEE 802.11f and the 4-way handshake of IEEE 802.11i without involving authentications server's interaction or non-standard behavior between access points. Our scheme is applicable to devices not supporting the us-authentication of IEEE 802.11i and also, it can substitute the pre-authentication when the pre-authentication is failed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1411-1419
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• 2017

The two factor authentication capability, private key possession and key protection password knowledge, and the strong public key cryptography protocol of PKI authentication have largely contributed to the rapid construction of Internet transaction trusted infrastructure. The reusability of a certificate-based identity for every PKI site was another contribution factor of the spread of PKI authentication. Nevertheless, the PKI authentication has been criticised mainly for the cost of PKI construction, inconvenience of individual certificate management, and difficulties of password management. Recently FIDO authentication has received high attention as an alternative of the PKI authentication. The FIDO authentication is also based on the public key cryptography which provides strong authentication services, but it does not require individual certificate issuance and provides user-friendly and secure authentication services by integrating biometric technologies. The purpose of this paper is to concretely compare the PKI-authentication and FIDO-authentication and, based on the analysis result, to propose their corresponding applications.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.2
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• pp.165-182
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• 2009

Mobile IPv6 spends considerable bandwidth considering that its signal volume is proportional to the mobile and also it should be strengthened to support the binding signal volume, the traffic, and effective mobility. So, the study in NEMO(Network Mobility), an extended version of Mobile IPv6, has been conducted. NEMO provides its mobility by putting several mobiles and more than one portable router into one unit called as mobile network. Because nodes access Internet via the portable router at this time, it receives transparency without any additional work and that much reduces binding signal while solving binding storm. By supporting mobility, NEMO is able to have various mobile structures which realize several networks hierarchically and it is necessary to improve its safety and security by authenticating among the upper networks or the lower ones while moving. Also, it is extremely required to begin a study in the device to improve efficiency accompanied with mobility, which is executed by the fast hand-off as well as the safe authentication. For those reasons, this paper not only classifies various NEMO mobile scenarios into 7 ways, but also provides AAA authentication of each scenario, the authentication through the safety authentication and fast handoff authentication using F+HMIPv6 and the way to reduce both signaling volume and packet delays efficiently during the handoff.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.30-39
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• 2008

This paper proposes a secure and efficient handover authentication protocol in VANET supporting fast mobility. Although the existing schemes commonly use the hash function or XOR operation to be suitable for a light-weight mobile, it does not support the security feature such as PBS. To solve this security problem, another protocol utilizing the CGA technology is proposed but it is vulnerable to the DoS attack due to a number of exponent operations. The proposed protocol using a light-weight Diffie-Hellman provides security features and performs a reduced number of exponential operation at the MN than the existing scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1996-2001
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• 2006

Open System Authentication Method, Shared Key Method, Mac Based Authentication Method are very hard to use in wireless network that needs security. So now, many researches have been performed about 802.1x and user authentication method applying PKI. but certificate verification protocol has been used abolished list called CRL since it's first usage of PKI, there were still has a problem about distribution point. This paper applied CVS to use CA direct not to use CRL and OSCP server in order to improve this problems. Also It suggested the system that can make authentication steps more shorter using authentication server and Mutual authentication system by public certificate(small size/low speed wireless terminal can access to wireless network fast and safely)

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.43-53
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• 2019

Recently, a number of military intranet infiltrations suspected of North Korea have been discovered. There was a problem that a vulnerability could occur due to the modification of user authentication data that can access existing military information systems. In this paper, we applied mutual verification technique and API (Application Programming Interface) forgery / forgery blocking and obfuscation to solve the authentication weakness in web browsers that comply with FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) standard. In addition, user convenience is improved by implementing No-Plugin that does not require separate program installation. Performance tests show that most browsers perform about 0.1ms based on the RSA key generation rate. In addition, it proved that it can be used for commercialization by showing performance of less than 0.1 second even in the digital signature verification speed of the server. The service is expected to be useful for improving military information system security as an alternative to browser authentication by building a web secure storage.