• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.55-62
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• 2021

Recently, the use of sensor devices is gradually increasing. As various sensor device emerge and the related technologies advance, there has been a dramatic increase in the interest in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs). While sensor device provide us many valuable benefits, automatically and remotely supported services offered and accessed remotely through WSNs also exposes us to many different types of security threats. Most security threats were just related to information leakage and the loss of authentication among the involved parties: users, sensors and gateways. An user authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks is designed to restrict access to the sensor data only to user. In 2019, Chen et al. proposed an efficient user authentication protocol. However, Ryu et al. show that it's scheme still unstable and inefficient. It cannot resist offline password guessing attack and session key attack. In this paper, we propose an improved protocol to overcome these security weaknesses by storing secret data in device. In addition, security properties like session-key security, perfect forward secrecy, known-key security and resistance against offline password attacks are implied by our protocol.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.417-429
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• 2019

WPA2-PSK uses a 4-way handshake protocol based on a shared secret to establish a secure session between a client and an AP. It has various security problems such as eavesdropping attacks and the secure session establishment process is inefficient because it requires multiple interactions between client and AP. The WPA3 standard has recently been proposed to solve the security problem of WPA2, but it is a small improvement using the same 4-way handshake methodology. OAuth 2.0 token authentication is widely used on the web, which can be used to keep an authenticated state of a client for a long time by using tokens issued to an authenticated client. In this paper, we apply the dual-token based randomized token authentication technology to the Wi-Fi security protocol to achieve an efficient Wi-Fi security protocol by dividing initial authentication and secure session establishment. Once a client is authenticated and equipped with dual tokens issued by AP, it can establish secure session using them quickly with one message exchange over a non-secure channel.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.610-612
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• 2002

전송계층에서의 안전한 통신을 위한 Secure Sockets Layer(SSL)와 Transport Layer Security(TLS)의 Handshake 프로토콜에서 Session ID의 저장이 매우 짧은 시간 동안 저장됨으로 전체적인 Full Handshake의 횟수가 증가한다. 따라서, 안전한 Session resume 보장함으로 서버의 session cache 기한을 연장할 수 있으며 전체적인 Full Handshake 프로토콜의 횟수를 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 Handshake 프로토콜의 성능 개선을 위하여 S/key와 같은 해쉬의 일방향 성질을 이용하는 개선된 Session resume의 방안을 제안한다.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.209-215
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• 2020

The environment of the Internet provides an efficient communication of the things which are connected. While internet and online service provide us many valuable benefits, online services offered and accessed remotely through internet also exposes us to many different types of security threats. Most security threats were just related to information leakage and the loss of authentication on client-server environment. In 2016, Ahmed et al. proposed an efficient lightweight remote user authentication protocol. However, Kang et al. show that it's scheme still unstable and inefficient. It cannot resist offline identity guessing attack and cannot provide session key confirmation property. Moreover, there is some risk of biometric information's recognition error. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme to overcome these security weaknesses by storing secret data in device. In addition, our proposed scheme should provide not only security, but also efficiency since we only use hash function and XOR operation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.2056-2063
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• 2015

Recently, as the service scale of cloud service is expanded, an anxiety due to concerns on new vulnerabilities and security related incidents and accidents are also increasing. This paper proposes a certification scheme for multiple session management of security sessions which are generated after the user authentication. The proposed session multiplexing scheme enables the independent management of security sessions in the level of virtualization (hypervisor) within the service provider. As a result of performance analysis, providing a strong safety due to session multiplexing and mutual authentication, and the superiority of performance was proven by comparing it with the existing mutual authentication encryption algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.103-114
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• 2008

Single Sign-On is an authentication scheme that enables a user to authenticate once and then to access to the resources of multiple software systems without re-authentication. As web services are being integrated into a single groupware, more web sites are adopting for user convenience. However, these Single Sign-On services are very dependent upon the cookies and thus, simple eavesdropping enables attackers to hiject the user's session. Even worse, the attacker who hijacked one session can move to another site through the Single Sign-On. In this paper, we show the vulnerabilities of the top ranked sites regarding this point of view and also propose a way to protect a user's session.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.75-86
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• 2023

Public key cryptography algorithm such as RSA and ECC, which are commonly used in current financial transaction services, can no longer guarantee security when quantum computers are realized. Therefore it is necessary to convert existing legacy algorithms to Post-Quantum Cryptography, but it is expected that will take a considerable amount of time to replace them. Hence, it is necessary to study a hybrid method combining the two algorithms in order to prepare the forthcoming transition period. In this paper we propose a hybrid session key exchange protocol that generates a session key by combining the legacy algorithm ECDH and the Post-Quantum Cryptographic algorithm NTRU. We tried the methods that proposed by the IETF for TLS 1.3 based hybrid key exchange, and as a result, it is expected that the security can be enhanced by applying the protocol proposed in this paper to the existing financial transaction session protection solution.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1219-1230
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• 2012

Recently, lots of users are using wireless LAN providing authentication and confidentiality with security mechanism such as WEP, WPA. But, weakness of each security mechanism was discovered and attack methods that user's information was exposed or modified to the third parties with it and abused by them were suggested. In this paper, we analyzed architecture of security mechanisms in wireless LAN and performed PSK cracking attack and cookie session hijacking attack with the known vulnerability. And, an improved 4-way handshake mechanism which can counter PSK cracking attack and a cookie replay detection mechanism which can prevent cookie session hijacking attack were proposed. Proposed mechanisms are expected to apply to establish more secure wireless LAN environment by countering existing vulnerability.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.17-27
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• 2007

This paper proposes a key distribution and authentication protocol between user, service provider and key distribution center (KDC). This protocol is based on symmetric cryptosystem, challenge-response, Diffie-Hellman component and hash function. In the proposed protocol, user and server update the session key under token-update operation, and user can process repeated efficient authentications by using updated session keys. And another merit is that KDC needs not to totally control the session key between user and server in proposed protocol. Even an attacker steals the parameters from the KDC, the attacker still can not calculate session key. According to the comparison and analysis with other protocols, our proposed protocol provides good efficiency and forward secure session key.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.343-351
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• 2015

With the diverse services of the current M2M environment being expanded to the organizations, the corporations, and the daily lives, the possibility of the occurrence of the vulnerabilities of the security of the related technologies have become an issue. In order to solve such a problem of the vulnerability of the security, this thesis proposes the technique for applying the cryptography algorithm for the protection of the device key of the M2M environment. The proposed technique was based on the elliptic curve cryptography Through the key exchange and the signature exchange in the beginning, the security session was created. And the white box cipher was applied to the encryption that creates the white box table using the security session key. Application results cipher algorithm, Elliptic Curve Cryptography provides a lightweight mutual authentication, a session key for protecting the communication session and a conventional white-box cipher algorithm and was guaranteed the session key used to encrypt protected in different ways. The proposed protocol has secure advantages against Data modulation and exposure, MITM(Man-in-the-middle attack), Data forgery and Manipulation attack.