• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.280-289
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• 2016

User authentication is an important issue on computer network systems. Most of the current computer network systems use the ID-password string match as the primary user authentication method. However, in password-based authentication, whoever acquires the password of a valid user can access the system without any restrictions. In this paper, we present a keystroke dynamics-based user authentication to resolve limitations of the password-based authentication. Since most previous studies employed a fixed-length text as an input data, we aims at enhancing the authentication performance by combining four different variable creation methods from a variable-length free text as an input data. As authentication algorithms, four one-class classifiers are employed. We verify the proposed approach through an experiment based on actual keystroke data collected from 100 participants who provided more than 17,000 keystrokes for both Korean and English. The experimental results show that our proposed method significantly improve the authentication performance compared to the existing approaches.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.132-141
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• 2015

There might have been weakness in securing user authentication or verification with real time service approach, while existing unimodal biometric authentication has been used mainly for user identification and recognition. Accordingly, it is essential to research and develop ways that upgrade security performance with multi biometric based real time authentication and verification technology. This paper focused to suggest binding assignment and strategy for developing multi biometric authentication technology through investigation of advanced study and patents. Description includes introduction, technology outline, technology trend, patent analysis, and conclusion.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.104-109
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a user authentication technology to protect wiretapping and attacking from others in the telematics environment, which users in vehicle can use internet service in local area network via mobile device. In the proposed user authentication technology, the packet speech data is encrypted by speech-based biometric key, which is generated from the user's speech signal. Thereafter, the encrypted data packet is submitted to the information communication server(ICS). At the ICS, the speech feature of the user is reconstructed from the encrypted data packet and is compared with the preregistered speech-based biometric key for user authentication. Based on implementation of our proposed communication method, we confirm that our proposed method is secure from various attack methods.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.571-578
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• 2017

In order to approach information system through smart device and pc, user has to authenticate him or herself via user authentication. At that time when user tries reaching the system, well-used user authentication technologies are ID/PW base, OTP, certificate, security card, fingerprint, etc. The ID/PWbased method is familiar to users, however, it is vulnerable to brute force cracking, keylogging, dictionary attack. so as to protect these attacks, user has to change the passwords periodically as per password combination instructions. In this paper, we designed and implemented a user authentication system using smartphone's USIM without using password while enhancing security than existing ID / PW based authentication technology.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.6169-6187
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• 2017

With the fast growth of mobile services, Mobile Cloud Computing(MCC) has gained a great deal of attention from researchers in the academic and industrial field. User authentication and privacy are significant issues in MCC environment. Recently, Tsai and Lo proposed a privacy-aware authentication scheme for distributed MCC services, which claimed to support mutual authentication and user anonymity. However, Irshad et.al. pointed out this scheme cannot achieve desired security goals and improved it. Unfortunately, this paper shall show that security features of Irshad et.al.'s scheme are achieved at the price of multiple time-consuming operations, such as three bilinear pairing operations, one map-to-point hash function operation, etc. Besides, it still suffers from two minor design flaws, including incapability of achieving three-factor security and no user revocation and re-registration. To address these issues, an enhanced and provably secure authentication scheme for distributed MCC services will be designed in this work. The proposed scheme can meet all desirable security requirements and is able to resist against various kinds of attacks. Moreover, compared with previously proposed schemes, the proposed scheme provides more security features while achieving lower computation and communication costs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.301-308
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• 2017

With the popularization of smart phones and the development of the Internet, many people use smart phones to conduct identity verification procedures. smart phones are easier and faster to authenticate than personal desktop computers. However, as Internet hacking technology and malicious code distribution technology rapidly evolve and attack types become more diverse, authentication methods suitable for mobile environment are required. As authentication methods, there are methods such as possessive-based authentication, knowledge-based authentication, biometric-based authentication, pattern-based authentication, and multi-element authentication. In this paper, we propose a user authentication mechanism that uses collected information as authentication factor using smart phone. Using the proposed authentication mechanism, it is possible to use the smart phone information and environment information of the user as a hidden authentication factor, so that the authentication process can be performed without being exposed to others. We implemented the user authentication system using the proposed authentication mechanism and evaluated the effectiveness based on applicability, convenience, and security.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.143-148
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a personalized user authentication system (PUAS) that can be used in multiple stages in user authentication by customizing the password keyword to be used in user authentication. The proposal concept is that the user oneself defines the password keyword to be used in user authentication so as to cope with a passive retransmission attack which reuses the password obtained when the server system is accessed in user authentication. The authentication phase is also designed so that it can be expanded in multiple stages in a single step. Also, it is designed to store user-defined password related information in an arbitrary encrypted place in the system, thereby designing to disable the illegal access of the network. Therefore, even if an intruder accesses the system using the proposed system, it is possible to generate personal authentication information by generating a password keyword through unique personal information possessed only by an individual and not know the place where the generated authentication information is stored, It has a strong security characteristic.

• Journal of Advanced Information Technology and Convergence
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 2018

Multimedia contents have been increasingly available over the Internet as wireless networks systems are continuously growing popular. Unlimited access from various users has led to unauthorized access of third parties or adversaries. This paper deals with the implementation of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) based user authentication for securing multimedia contents over the Internet. The ECC technique has been incorporated with the advanced encryption standard (AES) algorithm to ensure the complexity of the proposed authentication scheme and to guarantee authenticity of multimedia services.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.1742-1760
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• 2017

Recent evolution in the open access internet technology demands that the identifying information of a user must be protected. Authentication is a prerequisite to ensure the protection of user identification. To improve Qu et al.'s scheme for remote user authentication, a recent proposal has been published by Huang et al., which presents a key agreement protocol in combination with ECC. It has been claimed that Huang et al. proposal is more robust and provides improved security. However, in the light of our experiment, it has been observed that Huang et al.'s proposal is breakable in case of user impersonation. Moreover, this paper presents an improved scheme to overcome the limitations of Huang et al.'s scheme. Security of the proposed scheme is evaluated using the well-known random oracle model. In comparison with Huang et al.'s protocol, the proposed scheme is lightweight with improved security.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.2930-2947
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• 2014

With the rapid growth of the communication technology, intelligent terminals (i.e. PDAs and smartphones) are widely used in many mobile applications. To provide secure communication in mobile environment, in recent years, many user authentication schemes have been proposed. However, most of these authentication schemes suffer from various attacks and cannot provide provable security. In this paper, we propose a novel remote user mutual authentication scheme for multi-server environments using elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Unlike other ECC-based schemes, the proposed scheme uses ECC in combination with a secure hash function to protect the secure communication among the users, the servers and the registration center (RC). Through this method, the proposed scheme requires less ECC-based operations than the related schemes, and makes it possible to significantly reduce the computational cost. Security and performance analyses demonstrate that the proposed scheme can solve various types of security problems and can meet the requirements of computational complexity for low-power mobile devices.