• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.827-835
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• 2022

In order to use online financial services, user authentication technology is necessary. Password check through keyboard typing is the most common technique. However, since it became known that key stokes on the keyboard can be intercepted easily, many Internet banking services and easy payment services have adopted the virtual keyboard. However, contrary to the expectation that the virtual keyboard will be safe, there is a risk that key strokes on the virtual keyboard can be leaked. In this paper, we analyzed the possibility of password leaking on the virtual keyboard and presented a password leaking method using mouse event hooking and screen capture in PC operating system. In addition, we inspected the possibility of password leak attacks on several famous Korea Internet banking websites and simple payment services, and as a result, we verified that the password input method through the virtual keyboard in the PC operating system is not secure.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.75-90
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• 2004

At Asiacrypt 2003, Shin et al., have proposed a new class for Authenticated Key Establishment (AKE) protocol named Leakage-Resilient AKE ${(LR-AKE)}^{[1]}$. The authenticity of LR-AKE is based on a user's password and his/her stored secrets in both client side and server side. In their LR-AKE protocol, no TRM(Tamper Resistant Modules) is required and leakage of the stored secrets from $.$my side does not reveal my critical information on the password. This property is useful when the following situation is considered :(1) Stored secrets may leak out ;(2) A user communicates with a lot of servers ;(3) A user remembers only one password. The other AKE protocols, such as SSL/TLS and SSH (based or PKI), Password-Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE) and Threshold-PAKE (T-PAKE), do not satisfy that property under the above-mentioned situation since their stored secrets (or, verification data on password) in either the client or the servers contain enough information to succeed in retrieving the relatively short password with off-line exhaustive search. As of now, the LR-AKE protocol is the currently horn solution. In this paper, we prove its security of the LR-AKE protocol in the standard model. Our security analysis shows that the LR-AKE Protocol is provably secure under the assumptions that DDH (Decisional Diffie-Hellman) problem is hard and MACs are selectively unforgeable against partially chosen message attacks (which is a weaker notion than being existentially unforgeable against chosen message attacks).

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1225-1229
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• 2013

In this paper, we studied threats and risks that users might enter their passwords without awareness onto phishing and pharming sites, and particularly showed that it was highly likely to leak the secret information of multiple passwords by user experiments. The novel methodology of verifying those threats and risks is the major contribution of this paper. We will extend this work for further verification of our findings.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.91-96
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• 2017

PIN-entry interfaces have high risks to leak secret values if the malicious attackers perform shoulder-surfing attacks with advanced monitoring and observation devices. To make the PIN-entry secure, many studies have considered invisible radio channels as a secure medium to deliver private information. However, the methods are also vulnerable if the malicious adversaries find a hint of secret values from user's $na{\ddot{i}}ve$ gestures. In this paper, we revisit the state-of-art radio channel based bimodal PIN-entry method and analyze the information leakage from the previous method by exploiting the sight tracking attacks. The proposed sight tracking attack technique significantly reduces the original password complexities by 93.8% after post-processing. To keep the security level strong, we introduce the advanced bimodal PIN-entry technique. The new technique delivers the secret indicator information through a secure radio channel and the smartphone screen only displays the multiple indicator options without corresponding numbers. Afterwards, the users select the target value by following the circular layout. The method completely hides the password and is secure against the advanced shoulder-surfing attacks.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.219-226
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• 2015

OTP(One Time Password) is for user authentication of Internet banking and users should carry their security card or OTP generator to use OTP. If they lost their security card or OTP generator, there is at risk for OTP leak. This paper suggests a new User Authentication Framework using personal health information from diverse technology of u-Health. It will cover the problem of OTP loss and illegal reproduction A User Authentication Framework is worthy of use because it uses various combinations of user's physical condition which is inconstant. This protocol is also safe from leaking information due to encryption of reliable institutes. Users don't need to bring their OTP generator or card when they use bank, shopping mall, and game site where existing OTP is used.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.19C no.3
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• pp.167-172
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• 2012

Mobile phone devices and memory card can be robbed and lost due to the carelessness that might be caused to leak personal information, and also company's confidential information can be disclosed. Therefore, the importance of user authentication to protect personal information is increasing exponentially. However, there are the limitations that criminals could easily obtain and abuse information about individuals, because the input method of personal identification number or the input method of password might not be safe for Shoulder Surfing Attack(SSA). Although various biometric identification methods were suggested to obstruct the SSA, it is the fact that they also have some faults due to the inconvenience to use in mobile environments. In this study, more complemented service for the user authentication was proposed by applying Keystroke method in the mobile environments to make up for the faults of existing biometric identification method. Lastly, the effectiveness and validity of this study were confirmed through experimental evaluations.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.55-66
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• 2018

Since existing server-based authentications use vulnerable password-based authentication, illegal leak of personal data occurs frequently. Since this can cause illegal ID compromise, alternative authentications have been studied. Recently token-based authentications like OAuth 2.0 or JWT have been used in web sites, however, they have a weakness that if a hacker steals JWT token in the middle, they can obtain plain authentication data from the token, So we suggest a new authentication method using the verification token of authentic code to encrypt authentication data with effective time. The verification is to compare an authentication code from decryption of the verification-token with its own code. Its crypto-method is based on do XOR with ECDH session key, which is so fast and efficient without overhead of key agreement. Our method is outstanding in preventing the personal data leakage.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.4662-4679
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• 2015

Currently, the leakage of internal information has emerged as one of the most significant security concerns in enterprise computing environments. Especially, damage due to internal information leakage by insiders is more serious than that by outsiders because insiders have considerable knowledge of the system's identification and password (ID&P/W), the security system, and the main location of sensitive data. Therefore, many security companies are developing internal data leakage prevention techniques such as data leakage protection (DLP), digital right management (DRM), and system access control, etc. However, these techniques cannot effectively block the leakage of internal information by insiders who have a legitimate access authorization. The security system does not easily detect cases which a legitimate insider changes, deletes, and leaks data stored on the server. Therefore, we focused on the insider as the detection target to address this security weakness. In other words, we switched the detection target from objects (internal information) to subjects (insiders). We concentrated on biometrics signals change when an insider conducts abnormal behavior. When insiders attempt to leak internal information, they appear to display abnormal emotional conditions due to tension, agitation, and anxiety, etc. These conditions can be detected by the changes of biometrics signals such as pulse, temperature, and skin conductivity, etc. We carried out experiments in two ways in order to verify the effectiveness of the emotional recognition technology based on biometrics signals. We analyzed the possibility of internal information leakage detection using an emotional recognition technology based on biometrics signals through experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.987-997
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• 2012

A Point-of-Sales (POS) terminal manages the selling process by a salesperson accessible interface in real time. Using a POS system makes a business and customer management much more efficient. For these reasons, many store install POS terminal and used it. But it has many problem that stealing personal information by hacking and insider corruption. Because POS system stored payment information like that sales information, card valid period, and password. In this paper, I proposed software integrity verification technique in POS system based on White list. This method can prevent accidents that personal information leak by hacking and POS system forge and falsification. This proposed method provides software integrity, so it can prevent inside and outside threats in advance.