• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.83-92
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• 2001

In this study, we combine information hiding technique with digital contents protection scheme. For providing secure distribution on digital contents, a new paradigm can be proposed after considering both watermarking and fingerprinting techniques. In detail, publicly verifiable digital signature schemes are applied into digital contents. On signing digital copyrights, we can publicly verify its correctness if needed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.1917-1920
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• 2003

오늘날 대부분의 인증 시스템들은 PKI 환경으로 변화하는 추세이며, 인증서의 역할은 날로 중요해지고 있다. 만일 이런 인증서가 위조 된다면 심각한 정보 사고가 발생할 것이다. 따라서 인증서는 위조되면 안될 것이다. 그러나 인증서 위조 가능성은 존재한다. 왜냐하면 디지털 서명 방식을 사용하고 있기 때문이다. 인증서 위조 방법은 두 가지가 있다. 첫 번째가 인증기관의 비밀키를 알아내는 방법이고, 두 번째는 디지털 서명에 사용되는 해쉬 알고리즘의 충돌(Collision) 문제를 이용하여 위조하는 방법이다. 어느 것으로든 인증서가 위조되면 어느 누구도 기술적으로 위조라는 사실을 증명할 수 없다. 위조 인증서는 디지털 검증 방식에 의해 모두 유효하게 판정되기 때문이다. 첫 번째 방법은 디지털 서명에 있어서 원천적인 문제이다. 따라서 본 논문은 두 번째 방법인 해쉬 알고리즘의 충돌 문제를 이용한 위조를 해결하는 방법에 대해 연구한다. 또한 인증 경로를 최적화하는 방법에 대해서도 연구한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.503-505
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• 2003

현재 인터넷을 통한 상대방의 신뢰성을 보장해 주는 인증서 사용이 빈번해지고 있다. 그러나 오프라인상의 전자문서는 상대방의 신뢰성 보장과 전자문서의 위변조의 위험성이 많다. 또한 전자문서는 오프라인상의 이동성에 제악을 받게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하고, 사용자가 온라인과 오프라인에서도 사용하게 편리하도록 문서내용, 문서작성자의 인증서 그리고 전자서명값을 이차원 바코드로 변환하여 출력된 전자문서에서 상대방의 신뢰성과 문서의 무결성을 보장하도록 제안한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 문서내용, 문서작성자의 인증서, 전자서명값을 변환해 출력문서에 이차원 바코드를 첨부하게 된다. 출력된 문서에서 첨부된 이차원 바코드를 스케닝 하고 문서내용, 문서작성자의 인증서 그리고 전자서명값을 얻어오고 검증을 통해 위변조 여부 판단하여 상대방의 신뢰성과 문서의 무결성을 확인 하도록 한다.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.27-35
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• 2023

Currently, online user authentication is perform using joint certificates issued by accredited certification authorities and simple certificates issued by private agency. In such a PKI(Public Key Infrastructure) system, various cryptographic technologies are used, and in particular, digital signatures are used as a core technology. The digital signature scheme is equally used in DID(Decentralized Identity), which is attracting attention to replace the existing centralized system. As such, the digital signature-based user authentication used in current online services is also applied in the metaverse, which is attracting attention as the next-generation online world. Metaverse, a compound word of "meta," which means virtual and transcendent, and "universe," means a virtual world that includes the existing online world. Due to various developments of the metaverse, it is expted that new authentication technologies including biometric authentication will be used, but existing authentication technologies are still being used. Therefore, in this study, we study digital signature scheme that can be efficiently used for user authentication in the developing metaverse. In particular, we experimentally analyze the effectiveness of ECDSA, which is currently used as a standard for digital signatures, and Schnorr signatures, which can quickly verify a large amount of signatures.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.1071-1077
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• 2022

A security SoC that can be used to implement elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) based public-key infrastructures was designed. The security SoC has an architecture in which a hardware accelerator for the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) is interfaced with the Cortex-A53 CPU using the AXI4-Lite bus. The ECDSA hardware accelerator, which consists of a high-performance ECC processor, a SHA3 hash core, a true random number generator (TRNG), a modular multiplier, BRAM, and control FSM, was designed to perform the high-performance computation of ECDSA signature generation and signature verification with minimal CPU control. The security SoC was implemented in the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC device to perform hardware-software co-verification, and it was evaluated that the ECDSA signature generation or signature verification can be achieved about 1,000 times per second at a clock frequency of 150 MHz. The ECDSA hardware accelerator was implemented using hardware resources of 74,630 LUTs, 23,356 flip-flops, 32kb BRAM, and 36 DSP blocks.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.252-256
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• 2023

쇼어 알고리즘을 실행할 수 있는 양자 컴퓨터의 발전으로 인해 기존 ECC(Elliptic Curve Cryptography)를 사용하던 블록체인이 PQC(Post Quantum Cryptography)로의 전환을 고려하고 있다. 하지만 PQC 는 기존 암호에 비해 큰 사이즈, 느린 서명/검증 속도 등과 같은 문제점이 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 우리가 WISA'23 에서 새롭게 제안한 PQ-DPoL 합의 알고리즘에 NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology)가 선정한 Crystal-Dilithium, Falcon 그리고 Sphincs+를 적용하여 비교 분석하였다. 실험 결과에 따르면, 매우 큰 서명 크기를 가지고 있기 때문에 블록에 담기는 트랜잭션의 수가 감소하므로 Sphincs+의 성능이 가장 떨어짐을 확인하였다. 또한 Dilithium 은 Falcon 과 비슷한 성능을 보여주었다. 그 중에서도 Falcon 이 가장 우수한 성능을 보여주었다. 이는 Falcon 의 공개키와 서명의 크기가 다른 알고리즘에 비해 작기 때문이다. 따라서 양자내성을 갖는 블록체인에는 Falcon 512 알고리즘이 가장 적합할 것으로 생각된다. 그러나 블록체인의 속도와 보안 강도는 Trade-off 관계이므로 보안성을 중요시하는 블록체인 네트워크에서는 Sphincs+가 적합할 수 있을 것으로 보인다. 따라서 블록체인 네트워크의 상황과 목적에 따라 적절한 알고리즘을 사용해야 될 것으로 생각된다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.10D no.3
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• pp.559-566
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• 2003

As cell phone and PDA have been in common use recently, there is a growing tendency to utilize the mobile terminals for M-Commerce. The information security and the receipt of e-trade are very important to support reliable digital transactions in wireless environment as in wired environment. Even though some work such as WML digital signature and WPKI has been studied for M-Commerce, there are several problems on the aspects of the functional limitation of the mobile terminals and the unsecure data transformation of WAP gateway. In this study we have designed and implemented a prototype system of issuing and verifying the electronic receipt that guarantees authentication, data integrity and non-repudiation for secure mobile e-commerce. Moreover, we have enhanced the system performance by letting the trusted independent server verify and manage the electronic receipt.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.744-752
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• 2017

ECQV implicit certificate reconstructs the public key from the certificate without validation of the signature unlike the explicit certificate. Like this, the certificate and the public key is implicitly validated when a public key is reconstructed from a certificate. Hence, ECQV implicit certificate is shorter than the explicit certificate due to be only comprised of the public key reconstruction data instead of the signature and the public key, and faster to reconstruct the public key from the certificate than validating the signature. Furthermore, ECQV is well suited for environments and application that resources such as memory and bandwidth are limited because it is shorter the key length, and faster the performance than other cipher cryptography due to be run on ECC. In this paper, we describe prerequisites of ECQV specified in the SECG SEC 4 and issuance of an implicit certificate, reconstruction of the public key from an implicit certificate. Also we designed and implemented ECQV, and measured the performance of it.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.243-248
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• 2014

The demand for messenger service goes on growing rapidly with widespread use of smartphones. Generally, the smartphone messenger provides group communication functions in which users can make the group and communicate with each other. In the mobile meeting, the attendees can participate in the meeting with use of smartphone messengers wherever they are. To make the mobile meeting put to practical use, the mobility and privacy should be ensured to attendees. To satisfy the mobility requirement, the user which is not belong to the group members should not be able to participate in the meeting. To ensure the privacy requirement, the attendees should have not to repudiate the meeting results. In this study, the mobile meeting authentication scheme is proposed which provides mobility and privacy. The proposed scheme consists of meeting group creation, group key generation, group signature and verification protocols. All attendees should have to participate in the signature verification because it is based on the challenge-response type protocol. Thus, it's not possible to collude with malicious attendees to change the meeting results.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.11
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• pp.495-502
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• 2013

In this paper, we present an anonymous authentication and location assurance protocol for secure location-aware services over vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). In other to achieve our goal, we propose the notion of a location-aware signing key so as to strongly bind geographic location information to cryptographic function while providing conditional privacy preservation which is a desirable property for secure vehicular communications. Furthermore, the proposed protocol provides an efficient procedure based on hash chain technique for revocation checking to effectively alleviate communication and computational costs on vehicles in VANETs. Finally, we demonstrate comprehensive analysis to confirm the fulfillment of the security objectives, and the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed protocol.