• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.195-202
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• 2018

With the development of location-based applications such as smart phones and GPS navigation, active research is being conducted to protect location and trajectory privacy. To receive location-related services, users must disclose their exact location to the server. However, disclosure of users' location exposes not only their locations but also their trajectory to the server, which can lead to concerns of privacy violation. Furthermore, users request from the server not only location information but also multimedia information (photographs, reviews, etc. of the location), and this increases the processing cost of the server and the information to be received by the user. To solve these problems, this study proposes the EGTC (Enhanced Grid-based Trajectory Cloaking) technique. As with the existing GTC (Grid-based Trajectory Cloaking) technique, EGTC method divides the user trajectory into grids at the user privacy level (UPL) and creates a cloaking region in which a random query sequence is determined. In the next step, the necessary information is received as index by considering the sub-grid cell corresponding to the path through which the user wishes to move as c(x,y). The proposed method ensures the trajectory privacy as with the existing GTC method while reducing the amount of information the user must listen to. The excellence of the proposed method has been proven through experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.574-578
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서는 센서를 통하여 실시간의 상황인식 서비스를 제공하며, 이를 위해 사용자의 위치 정보 수집이 필요하다. NTT에서는 RFID에 대한 익명화를 통한 프라이버시보호 메커니즘을 제안하였다. 그러나, 불법적으로 접근하는 리더가 존재할 경우 i값의 비동기화를 통한 태그에 대한 Random Tampering공격이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 NTT 연구소의 RFID 익명화 방법을 개선하여 태그의 Random Tampering 공격 방지가 가능하고, 태그와 리더 상호간 인증이 가능하며, 연산 과정을 절감시킨 새로운 RFID 익명화 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 통하여 보다 안전하고 효율적으로 RFID기반 센서 네트워크 환경에서 사용자의 프라이버시를 보호할 수 있다.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.49-53
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• 2008

RFID 기술은 기존 물류 유통, 항만 등 다양한 산업 분야에서 널리 활용되고 있을 뿐만 아니라 고속도로 요금징수, 차량 요일제 등에도 활용되는 등 일반 사용자의 생활 전반에 걸쳐 빠르게 확산되고 있다. 또한 국내에서는 이동통신 기술과 RFID 기술을 결합한 다양한 형태의 모바일 RFID 서비스가 추진되고 있어 RFID 기술이 일반 사용자들에게 미치는 영향력은 더욱 증대되고 있다. 그러나 RFID 기술은 태그정보의 유출이 쉬워 개인정보 유출 및 이로 인한 개인에 대한 프로파일링, 위치추적 등의 우려를 포함하고 있어 RFID 기술의 활용 분야를 제한하고 있다. 본 고에서는 이러한 우려를 최소화하기 위해 개발된 Kill 태그, 블로커 태그, Clipped 태그 등 다양한 RFID 프라이버시 보호 기술을 소개한다. 또한, ITU-T SG17에서 표준화중인 RFID 서비스에서의 개인정보 및 프라이버시보호 관련 권고(안)의 주요 내용 및 표준화 추진현황을 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.496-498
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• 2002

최근 이동통신 사용자수의 증가로 각 통신사업자들은 이동 네트워크가 더욱 원활하게 동작할 수 있도록 인프라를 향상시키고, 업그레이드하고, 고도화시키는데 많은 노력을 기울이고 있다. 그러나 이러한 노력들에 비해 이동통신 사업자나 흑은 서비스 제공자들로부터 사용자의 위치정보나 이동내역정보 등과 같은 개인 프라이버시를 보호하는데 필요한 노력은 아직 미비한 실정이다. 현재까지 TP(Temporary Pseudonym) [3,4]등과 같은 사용자의 프라이버시를 보호하기 위한 여러 연구들[6,7]이 이루어지고 있으나 차세대 멀티미디어 이동통신환경에 적용하기에는 몇 가지 문제점들이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점들을 개선한 새로운 익명 시스템을 제안하고, 아울러 제안한 시스템의 시뮬레이션을 통하여 그 성능을 검증해보고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.71-80
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• 2008

We have studied to protect location and identity privacy of mobile users in mobile communication environments. In this paper, we propose and analyze new mobile originated protocols as a part of our new integrated system for high level privacy protection service which is not provided in the traditional GSM[1] system of europe. Also our protocols support a roaming service into the remote domain as welt as the home domain.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1408-1410
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• 2009

RFID는 무선 주파수를 이용해 사물이나 사람에 부착된 태그를 인식하고 태그에 담긴 정보를 주고받을 수 있도록 하는 비(非)접촉식 정보인식기술을 뜻하며 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network)의 핵심기술로 주목받으면서 다양한 분야에 걸쳐 연구되어 왔다. 기존 RFID와 이동통신 인프라를 융합한 모바일 RFID는 기존의 RFID 시스템과 모바일 네트워크의 장점을 동시에 지닌 개념으로써, RFID를 이용해 보다 다양한 서비스 제공이 가능할 것으로 기대되고 있다[1][2][3]. 2007년, Kim 등은 모바일 RFID 프라이버시 보호기법에 관한 논문을 발표하였다[4]. Kim등은 논문에서 개인 사용자들이 각각 모바일 리더를 소지하고 이를 상품구매 시 이용하는 환경을 가정하고, 이 때 발생할 수 있는 위협과 이에 대한 해결책을 제시하였다. 그러나 주장과는 달리 제안된 기법은 위치추적에 대해 안전하지 못하며 사용자 프라이버시를 보장하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 Kim등이 제안한 기법을 소개하고 실제 공격이 이루어지는 과정을 통해 제안된 기법의 취약성을 설명한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.107-115
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• 2010

RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology, automatic identification and data capture technologies in ubiquitous computing is an essential skill. Low-cost Radio Frequency Identification tags using memory and no physical contact due to the ease of use and maintenance of excellence are going to use expanded. However, it is possible to the illegal acquisition of the information between RFID tags and readers because RFID uses the RF signal, and the obtained information can be used for the purpose of location tracking and invasion of privacy. In this paper, we proposed the security scheme to protect against the illegal user location tracking and invasion of privacy. The security scheme proposed in this paper, using Gray Code and reduced the capacity of the calculation of the actual tags, However, it is impossible for the malicious attacker to track information because tag information transmitted from the reader is not fixed. Therefore, even if the tags information is obtained by a malicious way, our scheme provides more simple and safe user privacy than any other protection methods to protect user privacy, because not actual information but encrypted information is becoming exposed.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.652-663
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• 2015

Due to the popularity of location-based services, the amount of generated spatial data in daily life has been dramatically increasing. Therefore, spatial database outsourcing has become popular for data owners to reduce the spatial database management cost. The most important consideration in database outsourcing is meeting the privacy requirements and guarantying the integrity of the query result. However, most of existing database transformation techniques do not support both of the data privacy and integrity of the query result. To solve this problem, we propose a spatial data transformation scheme that utilizes the shearing transformation with rotation shifting. In addition, we described the attack models to measure the data privacy of database transformation schemes. Finally, we demonstrated through the experimental evaluations that our scheme provides high level of data protection against different kinds of attack models, compared to the existing schemes, while guaranteeing the integrity of the query result sets.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.138-143
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• 2021

As of this moment, we are tracing people who are closed contact with Covid-19 patients and trying to block the spread of Covid-19 through diagnostic tests. However, the incubation period of the confirmed case is two weeks, and it takes a lot of human resources, time, and money to trace the routes of the confirmed case. In particular, as the number of confirmed cases have been increasing, the cost for finding closed contacts and blocking them in advance exponentially have almost reached the limitation of the budget. In finding closed contacts, all citizens must record an electronic access list every time they visit an amenities such as a store or a restaurant. This is likely the invasion of the privacy of personal location information. In this study, we designed a system that keeps one's location in real time, it will download the movement information of the confirmed case which is collected by KDCA, and it will notify the user when there is an overlap. Moreover, then guide for diagnostic test in advance will be used. The proposed method can solve the difficulty of recording in an electronic access list when visiting a store, and it can block infringement of privacy without providing personal information from KDCA.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.19-30
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• 2009

Recent development in wireless communication technology and mobile equipment like PDA, cellular phone and GPS makes location-based services (LBSs) popular. However, because, in the LBSs, users continuously request a query to LBS servers by using their exact locations, privacy information could be in danger. Therefore, a mechanism for users' privacy protection is required for the safe and comfortable use of LBSs by mobile users. For this, this paper propose a grid-based cloaking area creation scheme supporting continuous LBSs. The proposed scheme creates a cloaking area rapidly by using grid-based cell expansion to efficiently support the continuous LBSs. In addition, to generate a cloaking area which makes the exposure probability of a mobile user to a minimum, we compute a privacy protection degree by granting weights to mobile users. Finally, we show from a performance analysis that our cloaking scheme outperforms the existing cloaking schemes, in terms of service time, privacy protection degree.