• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.19-25
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• 2017

This paper deals with integer factorization of two prime p,q of SHA-256 secure hash value n for Bit coin mining. This paper proposes an algorithm that greatly reduces the execution time of Pollard's rho integer factorization algorithm. Rho(${\rho}$) algorithm computes $x_i=x^2_{i-1}+1(mod\;n)$ and $y_i=[(y^2_{i-1}+1)^2+1](mod\;n)$ for intial values $(x_0,y_0)=(2,2)$ to find the factor 1 < $gcd({\mid}x_i-y_i{\mid},n)$ < n. It however fails to factorize some particular composite numbers. The algorithm proposed in this paper applies multiple initial values $(x_0,y_0)=(2^k,2^k)$ and ($2^k,2$), $2{\leq}k{\leq}10$ to the existing Pollard's Rho algorithm. As a results, the proposed algorithm achieves both the factorization of all the composite numbers and the reduction of the execution time of Pollard's Rho by 67.94%.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.79-85
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• 2016

Ransomware was a malicious code that active around the US, but now it spreads rapidly all over the world and emerges in korea recently because of exponential computer supply and increase in users. Initially ransomware uses e-mail as an attack medium in such a way that induces to click a file through the spam mail Pam, but it is now circulated through the smart phone message. The current trend is an increase in the number of damage, including attacks such as the domestic large community site by ransomware hangul version. Ransomware outputs a warning message to the user to encrypt the file and leads to monetary damages and demands for payment via bitcoin as virtual currency is difficult to infer the tracking status. This paper presents an analysis and solutions to damage cases caused by ransomware.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.73-78
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• 2020

To analyze the main topics related to the use of blockchain technology, the Topic Modeling Technique was applied to the 'Blockchain Technology Utilization' big data shown in newspaper articles. To this end, from 2013 to 2019, when newspaper articles on the use of blockchain technology first appeared, the topics were extracted from 21 newspapers and analyzed by time to 15,537 articles. As a result of the analysis, articles related to the utilization of blockchain technology have increased exponentially since 2015 and focused on IT_science and economics. Key words related to cryptocurrency, bitcoin and virtual currency were weighted high, although they differed depending on time. Blockchain technology, which had focused on financial transactions, gradually expanded to big data, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. As a result, changes in corporate topics were also made together to expand into various fields at banks for financial transactions, focusing on large and global companies. The study showed how these topics were changing, along with the main topics in newspaper articles related to the use of blockchain technology.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.18-27
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• 2019

Through the technology of the 4th industrial revolution, agricultural machinery is becoming increasingly intelligent, and the machine is replacing the role of farmer manpower as a whole. However, safety accidents caused by careless use of agricultural machines and theft accidents due to the difficulty of keeping them are increasing every year. Because agricultural machines do not manage the history of events and accidents unlike automobiles, they are often used for crime. There is also no way to cope with the issues if there happens issues on agricultural machines. In this paper, we propose the system based on block chain which can manage the history of the agricultural machinery by registering the chassis number at the same time when purchasing the agricultural machinery. Since this system contains the history of accident and repair information about the owner's agricultural machinery, it is possible to trace back even if a theft occurs. The proposed system also allows buyers to secure transactions by providing reliable data through inquiry of this system when trading in the secondary market in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.231-239
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• 2020

Cryptocurrency, represented by Bitcoin, initially received little public attention, but recently raised global cryptocurrency investments with recognition of future value. The academic interest in cryptocurrency lies elsewhere. This is because the future value of cryptocurrency is likely to be highly applicable to the technology underlying cryptocurrency. The technology is the blockchain. The purpose of this study is to find out what factors influence logistics companies to adopt blockchain technology. Based on the TOE frame, this study presented expected profit, organizational readiness, technology compatibility, and competitive pressure as factors of adoption of blockchain technology. And the effects of these factors on the adoption intention of logistics companies were analyzed empirically. A survey was conducted on Korean logistics companies. Analysis of the collected data showed that expected profit, organizational readiness, technology compatibility, and competitive pressures influence the intention to adopt blockchain technology. Among them, however, expected profit and organizational readiness were found to have the greatest influence on adoption intention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.55-62
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• 2018

Many domestic and international countries recently apply the blockchain technology to its related application fields. Not the enterprise-centered economy, the concept of the sharing economy which is controlled by individuals has been expanded. However, the development of the necessary system to realize the sharing economy in the agricultural sector has still been insufficient. Because the agricultural machinery rental business in the recent agricultural policies is managed by the government and the local government keeps and provides limited quantities and resources, its operation system has several problems. In case of high-priced agricultural machines, the machines can not be supplied adequately at the right time due to the limited quantities during the busy farming season. This paper proposes the sharing system that individual owners rent their agricultural machinery to growers using the blockchain technology. Thus, the proposed system provides the distributed method to solve agricultural machines of a lack of resources and also gives the secure service to all the growers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.637-659
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• 2021

Since the creation of the first Bitcoin blockchain in 2009, the number of cryptocurrency users has steadily increased. However, the number of hacking attacks targeting assets stored in these users' cryptocurrency wallets is also increasing. Therefore, we evaluate the security of the wallets currently on the market to ensure that they are safe. We first conduct threat modeling to identify threats to cryptocurrency wallets and identify the security requirements. Second, based on the derived security requirements, we utilize attack trees and Bayesian network analysis to quantitatively measure the risks inherent in each wallet and compare them. According to the results, the average total risk in software wallets is 1.22 times greater than that in hardware wallets. In the comparison of different hardware wallets, we found that the total risk inherent to the Trezor One wallet, which has a general-purpose MCU, is 1.11 times greater than that of the Ledger Nano S wallet, which has a secure element. However, use of a secure element in a cryptocurrency wallet has been shown to be less effective at reducing risks.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.147-154
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• 2020

It is difficult to educate the overall operation of public and private blockchains with different characteristics. Recently, most education for blockchain is targeted at public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, in an actual business environment, a private blockchain such as HyperLedger Fabric is used because access to corporate data is controlled through user authentication. In the case of HLF-based education, it is necessary to understand various components that are not in the public blockchain, such as peers, orderers, and channels. In this paper, a lab framework for HLF is designed for an efficient and systematic understanding of the functions and operations. The framework consists of HLF network, chaincode, and decentralized software control functions. Through the framework, the network configuration, distribution and activation of chaincode, and dApp execution process were checked step by step, and it was very easy to understand the overall flow for blockchain services. In addition, it is expected that a systematic understanding of the overall flow will be possible even in future network expansion.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.91-106
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• 2022

Cryptocurrency, stood out the sharp cost rising of Bitcoin has been spotlighted by means of the solution for stagflation because it is decentralized with an existing currency differently. Especially getting into 4th industrial revolution, technologies using block chain and internet of things have been used in the many fields, and the power of influence is also widespread. Nevertheless like a remark of Elon Musk of Tesla CEO, the problems of environmental contamination for cryptocurrency have been pointed out continuously and the most representative of them is an enormous electric usage as the use of fossil fuels. Also the amount generated of carbon dioxide result in the acceleration of global warming mainly based on the climate changes of earth if the existing mining method is continued. On the other hand, review researches have been conducted restrictively as the connection with environmental contamination as the mining of cryptocurrency. In this study, it intended to review problems for environmental contamination as the diversification of ecological system of cryptocurrency concretely. Upon investigation existing prior documents on the putting recent data first, the mining of cryptocurrency has affected on the environmental contamination conflicting with carbon neutrality as increasement of the electric usage and electronic wastes. And POS method without the mining process appeared, but it had a demerit collapsing a decentralization and then we met turning point on appearing various environmental-friendly cryptocurrency. Finally the appearance of cryptocurrency using new renewable energy acted on the opportunity of the usage maximization of energy storage apparatus and the birth of national government intervention. Based on these results, we mention clearly that hereafter cryptocurrency will regress if not go abreast the value of currency as well as environmental approach.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.218-225
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• 2019

Since the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper on Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain is in the spotlight as one of the core technologies of the Fouth Industrial Revolution, which can be used in various industries beyond simple cryptocurrency. various researches and developments are being conducted worldwide to utilize blockchain technology, and a global blockchain consortium is formed. In addition, attempts are being made to apply to various industries such as logistics, distribution, and medical care as well as the financial sector. However, blockchain tecnology developments still do not reach the level that meets these concerns and expectations. In this paper, we presents a comprehensive overview of blockchain technology by giving its brief concepts, consensus algorithms, standardization, and security threats.