• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.27-35
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• 2005

While the current world wide network offers an incredibly rich base of information, it causes network management problem because users should have many independent IDs and passwords for accessing different sewers located in many places. In order to solve this problem users have employed single circle of trust(COT) ID management system, but it is still not sufficient for clearing the problem because the coming ubiquitous network computing environment will be integrated and complex networks combined with wired and wireless network devices. The purpose of this paper is to describe the employment and evaluation of federated ID interoperability method for solving the problem. The use of the proposed model can be a solution for solving network management problem in the age of mobile computing environment as well as wired network computing environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1478-1486
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• 2016

This paper introduces technical methods to improve the accessibility and usability of a WebRTC video conference (VC) application. Simplified login is essential, by applying such as single sign-on (SSO) to improve the accessibility of VC applications. High usability and manageability are also necessary to attract more users, enhance user experiences, and save service management cost. The proposed VC application leverages SAML-based federated identity management (FIM) to enable higher service accessibility. Users can access the application with their organizational ID and SSO authentication. The FIM eases user ID management and indirectly strengthens privacy information protection. Proposed web application has high usability and manageability because users and/or administrators can easily create, join, monitor, or tear down VC sessions through RESTful web service (REST API). We verify the feasibility of the VC application after illustrating the SAML-based identity federation and the designed REST API.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.27-80
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• 2023

Nowadays usage of different applications of identity management IDM demands prime attention to clarify which is more efficient regarding preserve privacy as well as security to perform different operations concerning digital identity. Those operations represent the available interactions with identity during its lifecycle in the digital world e.g., create, update, delete, verify and so on. With the rapid growth in technology, this field has been evolving with a number of IDM models being proposed to ensure that identity lifecycle and face some significant issues. However, the control and ownership of data remines in the hand of identity service providers for central and federated approaches unlike in the self-sovereign identity management SSIM approach. SSIM is the recent IDM model were introduced to solve the issue regarding ownership of identity and storing the associated data of it. Thus, SSIM aims to grant the individual's ability to govern their identities without intervening administrative authorities or approval of any authority. Recently, we noticed that numerous IDM solutions enable individuals to own and control their identities in order to adapt with SSIM model. Therefore, we intend to make comparative study as much of these solutions that have proper technical documentation, reports, or whitepapers as well as provide an overview of IDM models. We will point out the existing research gaps and how this study will bridge it. Finally, the study will propose a technical enhancement, everKEY solution, to address some significant drawbacks in current SSIM solutions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.1730-1740
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• 2016

This paper introduces a guest identity provider system for eduroam which is a global Wi-Fi service targeting users enrolled in higher education and research institutions. Developed eduroam AND (AutheNtication Delegation) system enables users to create their eduroam user accounts and to access eduroam regardless of their locations. Users with no organizational eduroam account therefore can freely access eduroam using the system. A federated authentication model is implemented in the system, and thus the system has merits of having high accessibility, indirectly verifying users and organizations possible, saving management overhead. Status monitoring is essential because authentication request and response messages are routed by eduroam network. eduroam AND performs active monitoring to check service availability and visualizes the results, which increases operational and management efficiency. We leveraged open-source libraries to implement eduroam AND and run the system on KREONET (Korea REsearch Open NETwork). Lastly, we present implementation details and qualitively evaluate the system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.1777-1787
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• 2017

Federated authentication (FA) is a multi-domain authentication and authorization infrastructure that enables users to access nationwide R&D resources with their home-organizational accounts. An FA-enabled user is redirected to his/her home organization, after selecting the home from an identity-provider (IdP) discovery service, to log in. The discovery service allows a user to search his/her home from all FA-enabled organizations. Users get troubles to find their home as federation size increases. Therefore, a discovery service has to provide an intuitive way to make a fast IdP selection. In this paper, we propose a discovery system which leverages geographical information. The proposed system calculates geographical proximity and text similarity between a user and organizations, which determines the order of organizations shown on the system. We also introduce a server redundancy and a status monitoring method for non-stop service provision and improved federation management. Finally, we deployed the proposed system in a real service environment and verified the feasibility of the system.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.373-383
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• 2016

With mobile-epoch and emerging of Fin-tech, Bio-recognition technology utilizing bio-information in secure method has spread. Specially, In order to change convenient payment services and transportation cards, the combination of biometrics and mobile services are being expanded. The basic concept of authentication such as access control, IA&A, OpenID, OAuth 1.0a, SSO, and Biometrics techniques are investigated, and the protocol stack for security API platform, FIDO, SCIM, OAuth 2.0, JSON Identity Suite, Keystone of OpenStack, Cloud-based SSO, and AIM Agent are described detailed in aspect of application of AIM. The authentication technology in domestic and foreign will accelerate technology development and research of standardization centered in the federated FIDO Universal Authentication Framework(UAF) and Universal 2 Factor Framework(U2F). To accommodate the changing needs of the social computing paradigm recently in this paper, the trends of various authentication technology, and design and function of AIM framework was defined.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.513-525
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• 2020

Until today, the personal information of subjects has been centralized in many companies or institutions. However, in recent days, the paradigm has gradually changed in the direction that subjects control their personal information and persue their self-sovereignty. Globally, individual data sovereignty is strengthened by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) and the US California Consumer Privacy Act(CCPA). In Korea, a few alliances consist of various companies are creating technology research and service application cases for decentralized ID service model. In this paper, the current decentralized ID service model and its limitations are studied, and a improved decentralized ID service model that can solve them is proposed. The proposed model has a function of securely storing decentralized ID to the third party and a linkage function that can be interoperated even if different decentralized ID services are generated. In addition, a more secure and convenient model by identifying the security threats of the proposed model and deriving the security requirements, is proposed. It is expected that the decentralized ID technology will be applied not only to the proof of people but also to the device ID authentication management of the IoT in the future.