Open AccessLocation Authentication based on Wireless Access Point Information to Prevent Wormhole Attack in Samsung Pay
Author(s) -
Gwonsang Ryu,
Chang Ho Seo,
Daeseon Choi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2017.03009
Subject(s) - computer network , computer science , computer security , authentication (law) , wireless , point (geometry) , telecommunications , internet privacy , mathematics , geometry
This paper proposes a location authentication method to prevent wormhole payment attack in Samsung Pay. The primary feature of this method is comparing wireless Access Point (AP) information collected by the current Samsung Pay user and a wireless AP model (WM) that was created from wireless AP information (WI) sent by previous Samsung Pay users. To create the WM, an autoencoder is used. Unlike the existing location authentication techniques that use WI, our method does not require additional hardware, modification of the Point of Sale (POS) software, or any pre-requisite information such as the location coordinates of the POS. We show that the proposed location authentication technique exhibits the minimum Equal Error Rate (EER) of 2.4% in real payment environments