• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.5755-5772
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• 2019

Security is becoming more important as society changes rapidly. In addition, today's ICT environment demands changes in existing security technologies. As a result, password authentication methods are also changing. The authentication method most often used for security is password authentication. The most-commonly used passwords are text-based. Security enhancement requires longer and more complex passwords, but long, complex, text-based passwords are hard to remember and inconvenient to use. Therefore, authentication techniques that can replace text-based passwords are required today. Graphical passwords are more difficult to steal than text-based passwords and are easier for users to remember. In recent years, researches into graphical passwords that can replace existing text-based passwords are being actively conducting in various places throughout the world. This article surveys recent research and development directions of graphical password authentication systems in Korea. For this purpose, security authentication methods using graphical passwords are categorized into technical groups and the research associated with graphical passwords performed in Korea is explored. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of all investigated graphical password authentication methods were analyzed along with their characteristics.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.843-853
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• 2017

In the case of electronic payment, the obligation to use the certificate-based authentication was abolished. As Fin-tech service providers gain autonomy, various authentication methods are provided. SMS, ARS, PIN, Text-passwords, Fingerprints are popular authentication methods in the mobile Fin-tech services. In this study evaluate the usability and security of authentication methods in a unified mobile environment. We evaluate the usability through SUS and interview. Also we evaluate the security level of authentication methods through NIST guideline. At the result of the usability evaluation, Fingerprint authentication method had been determined as the highest usability, also Fingerprint authentication method had been determined as the safest authentication method by obtaining Security Level 4.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.63-76
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• 2023

Identity and access management in cloud computing is one of the leading significant issues that require various security countermeasures to preserve user privacy. An authentication mechanism is a leading solution to authenticate and verify the identities of cloud users while accessing cloud applications. Building a secured and flexible authentication mechanism in a cloud computing platform is challenging. Authentication techniques can be combined with other security techniques such as intrusion detection systems to maintain a verifiable layer of security. In this paper, we provide an interactive, flexible, and reliable multi-factor authentication mechanisms that are primarily based on a proposed Authentication Method Selector (AMS) technique. The basic idea of AMS is to rely on the user's previous authentication information and user behavior which can be embedded with additional authentication methods according to the organization's requirements. In AMS, the administrator has the ability to add the appropriate authentication method based on the requirements of the organization. Based on these requirements, the administrator will activate and initialize the authentication method that has been added to the authentication pool. An intrusion detection component has been added to apply the users' location and users' default web browser feature. The AMS and intrusion detection components provide a security enhancement to increase the accuracy and efficiency of cloud user identity verification.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.71-84
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• 2019

Various researchers conducted the research on two-factor authentication suitable for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) after Das first proposed two-factor authentication combining the smart card and password. After then, To improve the security of user authentication, elliptic curve cryptography(ECC)-based authentication protocols have been proposed. Jiang et al. proposed a privacy-aware two-factor authentication protocol based on ECC for WSM for resolving various problems of ECC-based authentication protocols. However, Jiang et al.'s protocol has the vulnerabilities on a lack of mutual authentication, a risk of SID modification and a lack of sensor anonymity, and user's ID exposed on sensor node Therefore, this paper proposed security enhanced privacy-aware two-factor authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks to solve the problem of Jiang et al.'s protocol, and security analysis was conducted for the proposed protocol.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.498-514
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• 2012

Machine to machine (M2M) communications is the hottest issue in the standardization and industry area, it is also defined as machine-type communication (MTC) in release 10 of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Recently, most research have focused on congestion control, sensing, computing, and controlling technologies and resource management etc., but there are few studies on security aspects. In this paper, we first introduce the threats that exist in M2M system and corresponding solutions according to 3GPP. In addition, we present several new security issues including group access authentication, multiparty authentication and data authentication, and propose corresponding solutions through modifying existing authentication protocols and cryptographic algorithms, such as group authentication and key agreement protocol used to solve group access authentication of M2M, proxy signature for M2M system to tackle authentication issue among multiple entities and aggregate signature used to resolve security of small data transmission in M2M communications.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.83-90
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• 2006

Recently, the security for RFID/USN environment is divided into network security and RFID security. The authentication protocol design for RFID security is studied to protect user privacy in RFID system. However, the study of efficient authentication protocol for RFID system is not satisfy a security for low-cost RFID tag and user privacy. Therefore, this paper proposes a secure matrix-based RFID authentication protocol that decrease communication overhead and computation. In result, the Matrix-based RFID authentication protocol is an effective authentication protocol compare with HB and $HB^+$ in traffic analysis attack and trace location attack.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.125-134
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• 2018

Lamport firstly suggested password base authentication scheme and then, similar authentication schemes have been studied. Due to the development of Internet network technology, remote user authentication using smart card has been studied. Li et al. analyzed authentication scheme of Chen et al. and then, Li et al. found out the security weakness of Chen et al.'s scheme such forward secrecy and the wrong password login problem, and proposed an a new smart card based user password authentication scheme. But Liu et al. found out that Li et al.'s scheme still had security problems such an insider attack and man-in-the-middle attack and then Liu et al. proposed an efficient and secure smart card based password authentication scheme. This paper analyzed Liu et al.'s authentication and found out that Liu et al.'s authentication has security weakness such as no perfect forward secrecy, off-line password guessing attack, smart-card loss attack, and no anonymity. And then, this paper proposed security enhanced efficient smart card based password authentication scheme using fuzzy extraction technology.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.24 no.8
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• pp.174-178
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• 2024

IoT is collection of different "things" which are associated with open web. As all the things are connected to the Internet, it offers convenience to end users for accessing the resources from "Any Where, Any Time" throughout the globe. At the same time, open nature of IoT provides a fertile ground to an intruder for launching different security related threats. If we can no apply proper security safeguards to the IoT System, then it will be not useful to society. Authentication, Encryption, Trust Management and Secure Routing are different domains to offer security in IoT system. Among them, Authentication is very much important security service as it validates device identity before granting access to system services/ resources. Existing IoT Authentication algorithms are fail to verify device identity in unambiguous way. They are vulnerable to different security threats such as Key Stolen threat, MITM threat and Location Spoofing threat. So, it is a demand of time to design an efficient and secure Multi-factor IoT algorithm which can offer better security and validate device identity in unambiguous way.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.1-21
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the behavioral factors affecting the security attitude and intention to use biometrics password based on the protection motivation theory. This study also investigates security awareness training to understand trust, privacy, and security vulnerability regarding biometric authentication password. This empirical analysis reveals security awareness training boosts the protection motivational factors that affect on the behavior and intention of using biometric authentication passwords. This study also indicates that biometric authentication passwords can be used when the overall belief in a biometric system is present. After all, security awareness training enhances the belief of biometric passwords and increase the motivation to protect security threats. The study will provide insights into protecting security vulnerability with security awareness training.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.99-107
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• 1994

For the secure control of the communication satellite, security mechanisms should be employed on the ground station as well as on the spacecraft. In this paper, we present a security architecture fur the spacecraft command security of the communication satellite. An authentication mechanism is also proposed using message authentication code (MAC) based on the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cryptosystem.