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Enhancing the Session Security of Zen Cart based on HMAC-SHA256

  • Lin, Lihui;Chen, Kaizhi;Zhong, Shangping
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.466-483
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    • 2017
  • Zen Cart is an open-source online store management system. It is used all over the world because of its stability and safety. Today, Zen Cart's session security mechanism is mainly used to verify user agents and check IP addresses. However, the security in verifying the user agent is lower and checking the IP address can affect the user's experience. This paper, which is based on the idea of session protection as proposed by Ben Adida, takes advantage of the HTML5's sessionStorage property to store the shared keys that are used in HMAC-SHA256 encryption. Moreover, the request path, current timestamp, and parameter are encrypted by using HMAC-SHA256 in the client. The client then submits the result to the web server as per request. Finally, the web server recalculates the HMAC-SHA256 value to validate the request by comparing it with the submitted value. In this way, the Zen Cart's open-source system is reinforced. Owing to the security and integrity of the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm, it can effectively protect the session security. Analysis and experimental results show that this mechanism can effectively protect the session security of Zen Cart without affecting the original performance.

A Study of Improved Session Management for Mobile Web under BYOD environment (BYOD 환경을 고려한 모바일 웹을 위한 세션 관리 개선 방안 연구)

  • Kim, Young-hun;Park, Yongsuk
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.1117-1124
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    • 2015
  • This paper explains a web session management system for mobile web environment with BYOD(Bring Your Own Device). This system operates by enhanced secure session token. This system consists of an unique identifier, time stamp, and encryption algorithm. The Unique identifier in this system classifies each mobile device for web security based on mobile environment with BYOD. And the Time stamp in this system that determine session effectiveness for web security. Also the Cipher algorithm in this system that protects session token information for web security. This paper analysis a security of session management system running on mobile web environment using the simulation techniques. The proposed method is more suitable than the other methods under enviroment mobile web environment with BYOD.

Web Server Cluster's Load Balancing for Security Session

  • Kim Seok-Soo
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.93-95
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    • 2005
  • In order to create security session, security keys are preconfigured between communication objects. For this purpose, Handshake Protocol exists. The pre-master secret key that is used in this process needs to interpreted by a server to create master secret key, whose process requires a big calculation, resulting in deteriorating system's transmission performance. Therefore, it is helpful in increasing transmission speed to reuse secret keys rather than to create them at every connection.

Security Measures by Diagnosing Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

  • Kim, Hee Wan
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.22-29
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    • 2021
  • For web application vulnerability diagnosis, from the development stage to the operation stage, it is possible to stably operate the web only when there is a policy that is commonly applied to each task through diagnosis of vulnerabilities, removal of vulnerabilities, and rapid recovery from web page damage. KISA presents 28 evaluation items for technical vulnerability analysis of major information and communication infrastructure. In this paper, we diagnose the vulnerabilities in the automobile goods shopping mall website and suggest security measures according to the vulnerabilities. As a result of diagnosing 28 items, major vulnerabilities were found in three items: cross-site scripting, cross-site request tampering, and insufficient session expiration. Cookie values were exposed on the bulletin board, and personal information was exposed in the parameter values related to passwords when personal information was edited. Also, since the session end time is not set, it was confirmed that session reuse is always possible. By suggesting security measures according to these vulnerabilities, the discovered security threats were eliminated, and it was possible to prevent breaches in web applications and secure the stability of web services.

Improved Session Management for Mobile Workflow in Web Application Service (모바일 환경을 위한 웹 애플리케이션 서비스의 세션 관리 개선방안)

  • Kim, Young-hun;Park, Yongsuk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.387-389
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    • 2014
  • It is preferred to the popularization of smart device business processes through mobile. The ratio of Internet access via mobile devices is reached 30% of PC in September 2012. It is reproduced in a mobile environment that security threats arising from the Internet. that is the characteristics of cyber security threats appearing on the mobile era. Web Application Service security research firm OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) issued Session Management threat. That threat will be reproduced in the mobile environment. But Mobile is significantly different from Desktop Computer about Session Management environment. This proceeding proposes a improved Session Management method in Mobile environment.

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Improved Group Key Exchange Scheme Secure Against Session-State Reveal Attacks (세션상태 정보 노출 공격에 안전한 개선된 그룹 키 교환 프로토콜)

  • Kim, Ki-Tak;Kwon, Jeong-Ok;Hong, Do-Won;Lee, Dong-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.3-8
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    • 2008
  • Ephemeral data are easily revealed if state specific information is stored in insecure memory or a random number generator is corrupted. In this letter, we show that Nam et al.'s group key agreement scheme, which is an improvement of Bresson et al.'s scheme, is not secure against session-state reveal attacks. We then propose an improvement to fix the security flaw.

A New Session Key Agreement Scheme Using Smart Cards (스마트 카드를 이용한 새로운 세션 키 생성 방법)

  • Lee, Jongkook;Jongsoo Jang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.518-520
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    • 2003
  • This paper proposes a new session key agreement scheme which is based on Station-to-station protocol, or STS shortly. We extend key agreement model of STS, to take into account smart cards. Besides, we modify STS to withstand message replaying attack. Security analysis shows our scheme is still secure.

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An Improved Biometrics-based Password Authentication Scheme with Session Key Agreement

  • Yang, Hyungkyu
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.50-57
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    • 2016
  • In 2013, Li et al. proposed an improved smart card-based remote user password authentication scheme, and claimed that their scheme not only overcomes security weaknesses of the Chen et al.'s scheme but also is a more user friendly scheme compared with other schemes. In this paper, we analyze the security of Li et al.'s authentication scheme and we show that Li et al.'s authentication scheme is still insecure against the various attacks, such as the off-line password guessing attack, the forgery attack, and the session key generation attack etc. Also, we propose an improved scheme that can resist these security drawbacks of Li et al.'s authentication, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result of security analysis, the improved scheme is relatively more secure against several attacks than other related schemes in terms of the security.

Dynamic Session Key based Pairwise Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Premamayudu, B;Rao, Koduganti Venkata;Varma, P. Suresh
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.5596-5615
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    • 2016
  • Security is one of the major challenges in the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). WSNs are more vulnerable to adversarial activities. All cryptographic security services indirectly depend on key management. Symmetric key management is the best key establishment process for WSNs due to the resource constraints of the sensors. In this paper, we proposed dynamic session key establishment scheme based on randomly generated nonce value and sensor node identity, in which each sensor node is equipped with session key on expire basis. The proposed scheme is compare with five popular existing key management systems. Our scheme is simulated in OMNET++ with MixiM and presented experimental results. The analytical study and experimental results show the superiority of the proposed scheme over the existing schemes in terms of energy, storage, resilience and communication overhead.

Performance Analysis Model of Security Server (보안서버 성능분석 모델)

  • 윤연상;박진섭;한선경;양상훈;유영갑
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2003.11c
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    • pp.129-132
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    • 2003
  • This paper proposes a performance analysis model of security sowers. Performance analysis of security server reflects both the session and data traffic load. The proposed model is the bases of estimating the maximum response time and minimum queue size of a security server comprising a session association processor whose throughput is 1000 connection/s.

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