• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.152-154
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• 2004

In 2004, Ku-Chen proposed an improvement to Chien et al.'s scheme to prevent from some weaknesses. Lee et al. also proposed an improvement to Chien et al.'s scheme to prevent from parallel session attack. This paper, however, will demonstrate that Ku-Chen's scheme is still vulnerable to the parallel session attack and Lee et al.'s scheme is also vulnerable to masquerading server attack.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2011

Secure and efficient authentication schemes over insecure networks have been a very important issue with the rapid development of networking technologies. Wang et al. proposed a remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. However, recently, Chen et al. pointed out that their scheme is vulnerable to the impersonation attack and the parallel session attack, and they proposed an enhanced authentication scheme. Chen et al. claimed that their scheme is secure against the various attacks. However, we have found that their scheme cannot resist the parallel attack and the stolen smart card attack. Therefore, in this paper, we show the security flaws in Chen et al.'s scheme and propose an improved remote user authentication scheme using tamper-resistant smart cards to solve the problem of Chen et al.'s scheme. We also analyze our scheme in terms of security and performance.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.347-352
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 작은 패스워드만을 이용하여 안전하지 않은 통신상에서 사용자와 서버간에 서로를 인중하고 세션키를 공유하기 위한 새로운 키 교환 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 프로토콜의 안전성은 이산대수 문제와 Diffie-Hellman 문제의 어려움, 그리고 해쉬 함수의 암호학적 강도에 기반을 두고 있으며 패스워드 추측 공격, 중간 침입자 공격, Denning-Sacco 공격, 그리고 Stolen-verifier 공격에 안전하며, 완전한 전방향 보안성을 제공하도록 설계되었다. 더욱이, 구조가 간단하고 참여자들 사이에 병렬 처리가 가능하기 때문에 기존에 잘 알려진 프로토콜들과 비교하여 효율적이다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.704-712
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• 2010

Authentication is an important service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for an unattended environment. Recently, Das proposed a hash-based authentication protocol for WSNs, which provides more security against the masquerade, stolen-verifier, replay, and guessing attacks and avoids the threat which comes with having many logged-in users with the same login-id. In this paper, we point out one security weakness of Das' protocol in mutual authentication for WSN's preservation between users, gateway-node, and sensor nodes. To remedy the problem, this paper provides a secrecy improvement over Das' protocol to ensure that a legal user can exercise a WSN in an insecure environment. Furthermore, by presenting the comparisons of security, computation and communication costs, and performances with the related protocols, the proposed protocol is shown to be suitable for higher security WSNs.