• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1027-1036
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• 2014

In 2012, Sonwanshi et al. suggested an efficient smar card based remote user authentication scheme using hash function. In this paper, we point out that their scheme is vulnerable to offline password guessing attack, sever impersonation attack, insider attack, and replay attack and it has weakness for session key vulnerability and privacy problem. Furthermore, we propose an improved scheme which resolves security flaws and show that the scheme is more secure and efficient than others.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.482-484
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• 2012

With the rapid progress of wireless mobile communications, the authenticated key agreement (AKA) protocol has attracted an increasing amount of attention. However, due to the limitations of bandwidth and storage of the mobile devices, most of the existing AKA protocols are not suitable for wireless mobile communications. Recently, Lo and others presented an efficient AKA protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography and included their protocol in 3GPP2 specifications. However, in this letter, we point out that Lo and others' protocol is vulnerable to an offline password guessing attack. To resist the attack, we also propose an efficient countermeasure.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.55-62
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• 2021

Recently, the use of sensor devices is gradually increasing. As various sensor device emerge and the related technologies advance, there has been a dramatic increase in the interest in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs). While sensor device provide us many valuable benefits, automatically and remotely supported services offered and accessed remotely through WSNs also exposes us to many different types of security threats. Most security threats were just related to information leakage and the loss of authentication among the involved parties: users, sensors and gateways. An user authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks is designed to restrict access to the sensor data only to user. In 2019, Chen et al. proposed an efficient user authentication protocol. However, Ryu et al. show that it's scheme still unstable and inefficient. It cannot resist offline password guessing attack and session key attack. In this paper, we propose an improved protocol to overcome these security weaknesses by storing secret data in device. In addition, security properties like session-key security, perfect forward secrecy, known-key security and resistance against offline password attacks are implied by our protocol.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.209-215
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• 2020

The environment of the Internet provides an efficient communication of the things which are connected. While internet and online service provide us many valuable benefits, online services offered and accessed remotely through internet also exposes us to many different types of security threats. Most security threats were just related to information leakage and the loss of authentication on client-server environment. In 2016, Ahmed et al. proposed an efficient lightweight remote user authentication protocol. However, Kang et al. show that it's scheme still unstable and inefficient. It cannot resist offline identity guessing attack and cannot provide session key confirmation property. Moreover, there is some risk of biometric information's recognition error. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme to overcome these security weaknesses by storing secret data in device. In addition, our proposed scheme should provide not only security, but also efficiency since we only use hash function and XOR operation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.1483-1491
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• 2015

Applications of Internet of Things (IoT) supply various conveniences, however unsolved security problems such as personal privacy, data manipulation cause harm to persons, even nations and an limit the applicable areas of Internet of IoT technology. Therefore, study about secure and efficient security system on IoT are required. This paper proposes ID-based remote user authentication scheme in IoT environments. Proposed scheme provides untraceability of users by using different pseudonym identities in every session and reduces the number of variables. Our proposal is secure against inside attack, smart card loss attack, user impersonation attack, server masquerading attack, online/offline password guessing attack, and so on. Therefore, this can be applied to the lightweight IoT environments.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.304-310
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• 2009

Due to widely use of internet, a lot of users frequently access into remote server in distributed computing environment. However, transmitting the information using vulnerable channel without authentication security system can be exposed to replay attack, offline password attack, and impersonation attack. According to this possibility, there is research about authentication protocol to prevent these hostile attacks using smart card. In this paper, we analyze vulnerability of user authentication system based on password and propose modified user authentication system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.81-88
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• 2010

Sun et al. proposed a new design of wearable token system for security of mobile devices, such as a notebook and PDA. In this paper, we show that Sun et al.'s system is vulnerable to off-line password guessing attack and man in the middle attack based on known plain-text attack. We propose an improved scheme which overcomes the weaknesses of Sun et al.'s system. The proposed protocol requires to perform one modular multiplication in the wearable token, which has low computation ability, and modular exponentiation in the mobile devices, which have sufficient computing resources. Our protocol has no security problem, which threatens Sun's system, and known vulnerabilities. That is, the proposed protocol overcomes the security problems of Sun's system with minimal overheads.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.5556-5573
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• 2017

As a main component of Internet of Things (IoTs), the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely applied to various areas, including environment monitoring, health monitoring of human body, farming, commercial manufacture, reconnaissance mission in military, and calamity alert etc. Meanwhile, the privacy concerns also arise when the users are required to get the real-time data from the sensor nodes directly. To solve this problem, several user authentication and key agreement schemes with a smart card and a password have been proposed in the past years. However, these schemes are vulnerable to some attacks such as offline password guessing attack, user impersonation attack by using attacker's own smart card, sensor node impersonation attack and gateway node bypassing attack. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme which can resist a wide variety of attacks in WSNs. Cryptanalysis and performance analysis show that our scheme can solve the weaknesses of previously proposed schemes and enhance security requirements while maintaining low computational cost.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.93-101
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• 2023

In this paper, as a result of analyzing the TMIS authentication protocol using ECC and biometric information proposed by Chen-Chen in 2023, there were security problems such as user impersonation attack, man-in-the-middle attack, and user anonymity. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved authentication protocol that provides user anonymity to solve these problems. As a result of analyzing the security of the protocol proposed in this paper, it was analyzed to be secure for various attacks such as offline password guessing attack, user impersonation attack, smart-card loss attack, insider attack, perfect forward attack. It has also been shown to provided user privacy by guaranteeing user anonymity and untraceability, which must be guaranteed in TMIS. In addition, there was no significant increase in computational complexity, so the efficiency of execution time was achieved. Therefore, the proposed protocol in this paper is a suitable user authentication protocol for TMIS.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.324-332
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• 2002

We design authentication protocols for wireless internet not using certificates but using passwords. The target protocols include WTLS and the certificate request protocol in the wireless PKI(Public Key Infrastructure). When a password based protocol is designed and implemented for authentication and key exchange, care mutt be taken of the short length and of the not-so-randomness of passwords. To frustrate the offline guessing attack that makes use of those weaknesses, our two protocols are dependent on the password based authentication protocol that has security proof. In this paper, how to design systematically the security protocols for authentication and key exchange using passwords is presented, and the methodology hopes to be useful in some other area that needs authentication using passwords.