• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.899-914
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• 2022

A blockchain-based decentralized service can offer reliable services without the centralized server by operating the system based on the consensus among byzantine participants. Participants can interact with the blockchain network through a digital signature mechanism but the private key management issue remains unresolved. NIST SP800-57 provides a key-management guidance but this guidance is not appropriate for blockchain-based services because it does not consider a decentralized environment. In this paper, we define the core functions of the blockchain wallet application for private key management and present security protections according to NIST SP800-57, as well as related techniques to satisfy them. Finally, we propose the private key management guideline for secure blockchain-based decentralized services.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.1089-1097
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• 2016

It is well-known that, if additional information other than a plaintext-ciphertext pair is available, breaking the RSA cryptosystem may be much easier than factorizing the RSA modulus. For example, Coppersmith showed that, given the 1/2 fraction of the least or most significant bits of one of two RSA primes, the RSA modulus can be factorized in a polynomial time. More recently, Henecka et. al showed that the RSA private key of the form (p, q, d, $d_p$, $d_q$) can efficiently be recovered whenever the bits of the private key are erroneous with error rate less than 23.7%. It is notable that their algorithm is based on counting the matching bits between the candidate key bit string and the given decayed RSA private key bit string. And, extending the algorithm, this paper proposes a new RSA private key recovery algorithm using a generalized probabilistic measure for measuring the consistency between the candidate key bits and the given decayed RSA private key bits.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.11-21
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 PKI(Public Key Infrastructure)의 주요 응용 프로토콜 중에서, 인증서를 발급하고 인증서를 전달하는 절차, 인증기관간의 믿음을 확장하기 위한 상호 인증과 관련된 절차, 인증기관이 인증서를 발급 받는 최종개체의 공개키에 대응되는 개인키를 소유하고 있음을 증명하는 개인키 소유 증명(POP: Proof Of Propession)절차, 인증기관의 암호키 생신을 위한 절차 등과 같은 인증서에 대한 관리 프로토콜(CMP: Certificate Management Protocol)에 대하여 중점적으로 논의 하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.275-287
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• 1995

개인정보에 기초한 암호법은 통신자간 인증문제를 극복하고 공개 키 화일을 제거할 수 있는 방안으로 많이 연구되고 있다. Ham-Yang은 AMV 서명 기법에 기반하여 사용자 인증, 디지탈 서명과 키 분배가 가능한 개인정보에 기초한 암호법을 제시하였다. 본 논문에서는 이를 분석하고 Moon의 서명기법을 사용하여 개인정보에 기초한 사용자 인증, 디지탈 서명과 키 분배 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템의 안전성은 이산대수에 근거하며, 연산량과 시스템 구현 측면에서 효율적이다 대화형 간접 인증 키 분배 방식을 개선하였고 E-mail 등의 일방향 통신에 적합한 키 분배 방안을 제시한다

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.90-96
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• 2016

The 3390 million people, around 83% of the adult population in Korea use smartphone. Although the safety problem of the certificate has been occurred continuously, most of these users use the certificate. These safety issues as a solution to 'The owner of a mobile phone using SMS authentication technology', 'Biometric authentication', etc are being proposed. but, a secure and reliable authentication scheme has not been proposed for replace the certificate yet. and there are many attacks to steal the certificate and private key. For these reasons, security experts recommend to store the certificate and private key on usb flash drive, security tokens, smartphone. but smartphones are easily infected malware, an attacker can steal certificate and private key by malicious code. If an attacker snatchs the certificate, the private key file, and the password for the private key password, he can always act as valid user. In this paper, we proposed a safe way to keep the private key on smartphone using smartphone's unique information and user password. If an attacker knows the user password, the certificate and the private key, he can not know the smart phone's unique information, so it is impossible to use the encrypted private key. Therefore smartphone user use IT service safely.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.3-10
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• 2013

Several identity-based and authenticated key agreement protocols have been proposed. It remains at issue to design secure identity based and authenticated key agreement protocols. In this paper, we propose a one round authenticated group key agreement protocol which uses one more key pair as well as the public key and private key of typical IBE(Identity-Based Encryption) system. The proposed protocol modified Shi et al.'s protocol and He et al.'s protocol. The public and private keys and the signature process of our protocol are simpler than them of their protocols. Our protocol is secure and more efficient than their protocols in communication and computation costs.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.59-65
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• 2023

As research on blockchain applications in various fields is actively increasing, management of private keys that prove users of blockchain has become important. If you lose your private key, you lose all your data. In order to solve this problem, previously, blockchain wallets, private key recovery using partial information, and private key recovery through distributed storage have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a safe private key backup and recovery method using Shamir's Secrete Sharing (SSS) scheme and biometric information, and evaluate its safety. In this paper, we propose a safe private key backup and recovery method using Shamir's Secrete Sharing (SSS) scheme and biometric information, and evaluate its safety against robustness during message exchange, replay attack, man-in-the-middle attack and forgery and tampering attack.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.951-959
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• 2017

Under the assumption that there is available some additional information other than plaintext-ciphertext pairs, the security of the RSA cryptosystem has been analyzed by the attack methods such as the side-channel attacks and the lattice-based attacks. Recently, based on the data retention property of the powered-off DRAMs, the so called cold boot attack was proposed in the literature, which is focusing on recovering the various cryptosystems' key from some auxiliary information. This paper is dealing with the problem of recovering the RSA private key with erasures and errors and proposes a new key recovery algorithm which is shown to have better performance than the previous one introduced by Kunihiro et al.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.781-793
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• 2014

A Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is security standards to manage and use public key cryptosystem. A PKI is used to provide digital signature, authentication, public key encryption functionality on insecure channel, such as E-banking and E-commerce on Internet. A soft-token private key in PKI is leaked easily because it is stored in a file at standardized location. Also it is vulnerable to a brute-force password attack as is protected by password-based encryption. In this paper, we proposed a new method that detects private key compromise and is probabilistically secure against a brute-force password attack though soft-token private key is leaked. The main idea of the proposed method is to use a genuine signature key pair and (n-1) fake signature key pairs to make an attacker difficult to generate a valid signature with probability 1/n even if the attacker found the correct password. The proposed method provides detection and notification functionality when an attacker make an attempt at authentication, and enhances the security of soft-token private key without the additional cost of construction of infrastructure thereby extending the function of the existing PKI and SSL/TLS.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.3-16
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• 1994

본 논문의 저자들은 이전에 디지틀 이동통신 시스템을 위한 키분배 프로토콜을 제안한 바있다. 그러나 이 프로토콜에서는 사용자 인증에 RSA방식을 사용하므로 기존의 키분배 프로토콜과 비교하여 여전히 많은 지수승 연산처리가 요구된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 스마트 카드를 이용하는 보다 효율적인 세가지의 키분배 프로토콜을 새로이 제안한바 있다. 프로토콜 은 Schnorr 의 개인식별 방식을 변형시켜 얻은 개인식별 방식과 의 키분배 방식을 결합한 것이고, 프로토콜에서의 개인식별방식과 Okamoto 의 변형 키분배 방식을 결합한 것이다. 이와는 달리, 프로토콜은 Fiat-Shamir 의 개인식별 방식과 이 개인식별 방식을 기본으로 새롭게 구성한 키분배 방식을 결합한 것이다. 끝으로 지금까지 제안됐던 프로토콜과 본 논문에서 새롭게 제안하는 프로토콜에 대해 안정성과 효율성을 비교했다.