• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.9-15
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• 2019

Recently, in the field of next-generation e-commerce and finance, interest in blockchain-based technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is great. Although the security of blockchain technology is known to be secure, hacking incidents / accidents related to cryptocurrencies are being issued. The main causes were vulnerabilities in the external environment, such as taking over login sessions on cryptocurrency wallets, exposing private keys due to malware infection, and using simple passwords. However, private key management recommends general methods such as utilizing a dedicated application or local backup and physical archiving through document printing. In this paper, we propose a white box password-based private key protection scheme. As a result of safety and performance analysis, we strengthened the security against vulnerability of private key exposure and proved the processing efficiency of existing protocol.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.47-60
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• 2011

With the increase in the use of mobile banking service, mobile banking has become an attractive target to attackers. Even though many security measures are applied to the current mobile banking service, some threats such as physical theft or penetration to a mobile device from remote side are still remained as unsolved. With aiming to fill this void, we propose a novel approach to prevent e-financial incidents by analyzing mobile device user's input patterns. This approach helps us to distinguish between original user's usage and attacker's usage through analyzing personal input patterns such as input time-interval, finger pressure level on the touch screen. Our proposed method shows high accuracy, and is effective to prevent the e-finance incidents proactively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.107-115
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• 2012

The level of information protection is relatively low, in comparison with the informatisation in this country. The budget for information protection is also quite marginal at 5% of the entire information-related policy budget. The passive information protection practices by companies, which focus more on the aftermaths, lead to repeated expenses for risk management. The responses to the violation of information protection should be changed from the current aftermaths-oriented focus to prevention and early detection of possible violations. We should also realize that the response to a violation of protected information is not a responsibility of an individual but a joint responsibility of the nation and the industry. South Korea has been working towards to building a systematic foundation since 2004 when guidelines were announced regarding the information protection policy and the safety diagnosis. The current level of safety policies cannot provide a perfect protection against actual violation cases in administrative, technological and physical ways. This research evaluates the level of prevention that the current systematic protection policy offers, and discusses its limitation and possible ways for improvement. It also recommends a list effective measures for protection against information violation that companies can employ to maintain the actual target safety level.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.81-91
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• 2012

Presently in 2011, there are countless attacking tools oriented to invading security on the internet. And most of the tools are possible to conduct the actual invasion. Also, as the program sources attacking the weaknesses of PS3 were released in 2010 and also various sources for attacking agents and attacking tools such as Stuxnet Source Code were released in 2011, the part for defense has the greatest burden; however, it can be also a chance for the defensive part to suggest and develop methods to defense identical or similar patterned attacking by analyzing attacking sources. As a way to cope with such attacking, this study divides the network areas targeted for attack based on load balancing by the approach gateways and communication lines according to the defensive policies by attacking types and also suggests methods to multiply communication lines. The result of this paper will be provided as practical data to realize defensive policies based on high hardware performances through enhancing the price competitiveness of hardware infrastructure with 2010 as a start.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.525-536
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• 2012

This paper proposes methods of securing Smart Grid system against various types of cyber threats by separating AMI networks from the public network, the Internet, and providing an AMI specific authentication framework. Due to the fact that thousands and millions of AMI devices to be deployed would be directly or indirectly connected to the public network without any authentication procedures for access control, currently being developed AMI architectures could be widely exposed to considerable number of penetrating attacks. Furthermore, there have not been a sufficient number of researches on authentication frameworks with basis on the specific circumstances of AMI networking that should support varied authentication protocols among security associations and AMI linking devices. This work makes a proposal of isolating smart meters from HAN devices and the Internet and integrating network/application level authentication frameworks with an EAP-based authentication architecture. These approaches are beneficial to deploy AMI with security and efficiency.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.9-19
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• 2021

The data mining design incorporated with big data based cloud computing system is investigated for the nuclear terrorism prevention where the conventional physical protection system (PPS) is modified. The networking of terror related bodies is modeled by simulation study for nuclear forensic incidents. It is needed for the government to detect the terrorism and any attempts to attack to innocent people without illegal tapping. Although the mathematical algorithm of the study can't give the exact result of the terror incident, the potential possibility could be obtained by the simulations. The result shows the shape oscillation by time. In addition, the integration of the frequency of each value can show the degree of the transitions of the results. The value increases to -2.61741 in 63.125th hour. So, the terror possibility is highest in later time.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.25-36
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• 2021

This paper presents a topology based on packet tracer and a five-step scenario model to make it easier for students to understand the network on which VLANs are applied. Virtual LAN (VLAN), developed as an alternative solution to the Routers that distribute broadcast traffic, is a virtual local area network that logically configured regardless of the physical network. The VLAN prevents the network performance degradation resulting from the broadcast traffic by dividing the broadcast domain so that the bandwidth can be used more efficiently. In addition, it enhances the security because on communication between the devices belonging to different VLANs is impossible. The five-step scenarios in this paper presented an efficient implementation case for students to understand and validate the various functions of VLANs through ping/telnet/tracert test and simulation, after setting up each step of programming switches and routers in the virtual network.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.113-120
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• 2021

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) yoking authentication provides methods scanning a pair of RFID tags with a reader device and verifying them to ensure the physical proximity of objects. In the first yoking proof protocols, a verifier connected to a reader device online is essential to verify the yoking proof, and this condition limits the environment in which yoking proof can be applied. To solve this limitation, several studies have been conducted on offline yoking proof protocol that does not require the online connection between a reader and a verifier. However, the offline yoking proof protocols do not guarantee the basic requirements of yoking proof, and require relatively more operations on the tag compared to the previous yoking proof protocols. This paper proposes an efficient offline yoking proof protocol that supports offline verification without the need for an online verifier. The proposed protocol provides a secure yoking proof with fewer number of operations than the existing ones, and it also can be extended to the group proof for more than a pair of tags without additional devices. The analysis in this paper shows that the proposed protocol provides offline verification securely and effectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.440-448
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• 2021

This paper presents problems of network technology in smart grid and implements a blockchain-based LoRa multi-hop network to solve them. Since some smart grid applications are operated in harsh environments, it is difficult to establish communication infrastructure. We propose a LoRa network with multi-hop using the Flooding routing protocol. Smart grid environment composes an independent network using various power grid protocols depending on the application. Since this has a problem that an independent infrastructure must be established for each network, a single gateway device supports multiple power grid protocols to implement a method for network integration. Lastly, the author applied Hyperledger-based blockchain to the LoRa network to ensure the integrity of data in a smart grid environment, and strengthened security by physically distributing it. After constructing the three suggestions on the actual test bed, we confirmed that the network operates normally through experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.344-345
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• 2022

ogy is being used in many fields, such as smart farms, smart oceans, smart homes, and smart energy. Various IoT terminals are used for these IoT services. Here, IoT devices are physically installed in various places. A malicious attacker can access the IoT service using an unauthorized IoT device, access unauthorized important information, and then modify it. In this study, to solve these problems, we propose an authentication system for IoT devices used in IoT services. The IoT device authentication system proposed in this study consists of an authentication module mounted on the IoT device and an authentication module of the IoT server. If the IoT device authentication system proposed in this study is used, only authorized IoT devices can access the service and access of unauthorized IoT devices can be denied. Since this study proposes only the basic IoT device authentication mechanism, additional research on additional IoT device authentication functions according to the security strength is required.IoT technol