• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.63-72
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new authentication protocol for the LR-WPAN. In order to guarantee the reliability and safety of a protocol, this protocol uses the hierarchical authentication approach. In addition, in order to reduce the impact of the denial of service attack, the proposed protocol performs the authentication between a parent router and a joiner device prior to the authentication between a trust center and the joiner device. Moreover, this protocol reduces the authentication delay by decreasing the number of message exchanges during authentication procedure. This paper evaluates the safety of the proposed protocol by the security analysis and reliability of the proposed protocol by the GNY analysis. This paper also compares the number of message exchanges of the ZigBee authentication protocol and the proposed protocol when denial of service attack occurs to evaluate the resistance of the proposed protocol against the denial of service attack. We also analyze the delay for authentication of the joiner device through the implementation of both protocols. Those results show that the proposed protocol effectively protects networks from the denial of service attack and reduces the time for authenticating the joiner device up to maximum 30% as the number of hops increases.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.661-669
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• 2008

Nowadays, authentication is essential to identify the legal users in a network communication. Usually, there are few wars to achieve authentication over a publicly accessible network system in order to protect certain private data from the unauthorized users, ranging from simple ID/Password to Biometrics System. One of the most active areas in OTP(One Time Password) research today aims at exploiting OTP to provide authentication in the finance and security industry. OTP is usually discarded once it has been used. this prevents huge loophole of traditional authentication system which employs the same ID and Password every time. However this OTP system also has its weaknesses in surviving some attacks. this paper proposes an advanced OTP protocol using PingPong-128 without loop hole of pre-existing OTP.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.3-10
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• 2004

A Wireless Lan has an importance of access control, because we can use wireless Internet via AP(Access Point). Moreover, to use wireless LAN, we will go through authentication process of EAP. DoS(Denial of Service) attack is one of the fatal attack about these AP access and authentication process. That is, if malicious attacker keeps away access of AP or consumes memory of server and calculation ability of CPU and etc. compulsorily in authentication process, legal user can't get any services. In this paper, we presents the way of protection against the each attack that is classified into access control, allocation of resource, attack on authentication protocol. The first thing, attack to access control, is improved by pre-verification and the parameter of security level. The second, attack of allocation of resource, is done by partial stateless protocol. And the weak of protocol is done by time-stamp and parameter of access limitation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.133-138
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• 2009

Recently Lin et al. proposed the remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. But the proposed scheme has not been satisfied security requirements considering in the user authentication scheme using the password based smart card. In this paper, we showed that he can get the user's password using the off-line password guessing attack on the scheme when the adversary steals the user's smart card and extracts the information in the smart card. Also, we proposed the seven security requirements for evaluating remote user authentication schemes using smart card. As a result of analysis, in Lin et al's scheme we have found the deficiencies of security requirements. So we suggest the improved scheme, the mutual authentication scheme that does not store the user's password verifier in server and can authenticate each other at the same time between the user and server.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.7C
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• pp.997-1006
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• 2004

The rapid expansion of the Internet has provided users with a diverse range of services. Most Internet users create many different IDs and passwords to subscribe to various Internet services. Thus, the SSO system has been proposed to supplement vulnerable security that may arise from inefficient management system where administrators and users manage a number of ms. The SSO system can provide heightened efficiency and security to users and administrators. Recently commercialized SSO systems integrate a single agent with the broker authentication model. However, this hybrid authentication system cannot resolve problems such as those involving user pre-registration and anonymous users. It likewise cannot provide non-repudiation service between joining objects. Consequently, the hybrid system causes considerable security vulnerability. Since it cannot provide security service for the agent itself, the user's private information and SSO system may have significant security vulnerability. This paper proposed an authentication model that integrates a broker authentication model, out of various authentication models of the SSO system, with a multi-agent system. The proposed method adopts a secure multi-agent system that supplements the security vulnerability of an agent applied to the existing hybrid authentication system. The method proposes an SSO authentication model that satisfies various security requirements not provided by existing broker authentication models and hybrid authentication systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.449-449
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• 2004

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.1561-1569
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• 2016

As the use of the sensor device increases in IoT environment, the need for device security is becoming more and more important When a sensor device is deployed in IEEE 802.15.4-based LoWPAN, it has to perform the join operation with PAN Coordinator and the binding operation with another device. In the join and binding process, authentication and key distribution of the device are performed using the pre-distributed network key or certificate. However, the network key used in the conventional method has problems that it's role is limited to the group authentication and individual identification is not applied in certificate issuing. In this paper, we propose a secure join and binding protocol in LoWPAN environment that solves the problems of pre-distributed network key.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.251-260
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed a scheme that it safely exchanges encrypted keys without Trust Third Party (TTP) and Pre-distributing keys in multi-hop clustering sensor networks. Existing research assume that it exists a TTP or already it was pre-distributed a encrypted key between nodes. However, existing methods are not sufficient for USN environment without infrastructure. Some existing studies using a random number Diffie-Hellman algorithm to solve the problem. but the method was vulnerable to Replay and Man-in-the-middle attack from the malicious nodes. Therefore, authentication problem between nodes is solved by adding a ��TESLA. In this paper, we propose a modified Diffie-Hellman algorithm that it is safe, lightweight, and robust pair-wise agreement algorithm by adding One Time Password (OTP) with timestamp. Lastly, authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non-impersonation, backward secrecy, and forward secrecy to verify that it is safe.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.86-94
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• 2010

This paper proposed an authentication interworking protocol (AIP) based on IEEE 802.21 MIH in the heterogeneous networks. The proposed AIP using the RSA signature reduces handover delay time and communication message overhead when the mobile node moves between the heterogeneous networks. It defines new AIP TLV in MIH frame format and uses the MIH Information Server (MIHIS) for proxy signature issue instead of the authentication server for the heterogeneous networks. For low handover delay, the proposed AIP performs pre-authentication processes with MIH protocol before layer 2 handover. Also, this paper analyzed the performance of the handover and compared with the non-secure MIH protocol.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.9
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• pp.707-714
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• 2013

IoT, which can be regarded as an enhanced version of M2M communication technology, was proposed to realize intelligent thing to thing communications by utilizing Internet connectivity. Things in IoT are generally heterogeneous and resource constrained. Also such things are connected with each other over LLN(low power and lossy Network). Confidentiality, mutual authentication and message origin authentication are required to make a secure service in IoT. Security protocols used in traditional IP Networks cannot be directly adopted to resource constrained devices in IoT. Under the respect, a IETF standard group proposes to use lightweight version of DTLS protocol for supporting security services in IoT environments. However, the protocol can not cover up all of very constrained devices. To solve the problem, we propose a scheme which tends to support mutual authentication and session key agreement between devices that contain only a single crypto primitive module such as hash function or cipher function because of resource constrained property. The proposed scheme enhances performance by pre-computing a session key and is able to defend various attacks.