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(An HTTP-Based Application Layer Security Protocol for Wireless Internet Services) (무선 인터넷 서비스를 위한 HTTP 기반의 응용 계층 보안 프로토콜)

  • 이동근;김기조;임경식
    • Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.377-386
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we present an application layer protocol to support secure wireless Internet services, called Application Layer Security(ALS). The drawbacks of the two traditional approaches to secure wireless applications motivated the development of ALS. One is that in the conventional application-specific security protocol such as Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol(S-HTTP), security mechanism is included in the application itself. This gives a disadvantage that the security services are available only to that particular application. The other is that a separate protocol layer is inserted between the application and transport layers, as in the Secure Sockets Layer(SSL)/Transport Layer Security(TLS). In this case, all channel data are encrypted regardless of the specific application's requirements, resulting in much waste of network resources. To overcome these problems, ALS is proposed to be implemented on top of HTTP so that it is independent of the various transport layer protocols, and provides a common security interface with security applications so that it greatly improves the portability of security applications. In addition, since ALS takes advantages of well-known TLS mechanism, it eliminates the danger of malicious attack and provides applications with various security services such as authentication, confidentiality integrity and digital signature, and partial encryption. We conclude this paper with an example of applying ALS to the solution of end-to-end security in a present commercial wireless protocol stack, Wireless Application Protocol.

User Authentication of a Smart City Management System (스마트시티 매니지먼트 시스템에서의 사용자인증보안관리)

  • Hwang, Eui-Dong;Lee, Yong-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we introduce the UTOPIA Smart City Security Management System which manages a user authentication for smart cities. Because the smart city management system should take care of huge number of users and services, and various kinds of resources and facilities, and they should be carefully controlled, we need a specially designed security management system. UTOPIA is a smart city system based on ICT(Information and Communication Technology), and it has a three tier structure of UTOPIA portal system, UTOPIA processing system and UTOPIA infrastructure system. The UTOPIA processing system uses the smart city middleware named SmartUM. The UTOPIA Smart City Security Management System is implemented in the application security layer, which is the top layer of the SmartUM middleware, and the infrastructure security layer, which is the lowest layer. The UTOPIA Smart City security management system is built on the premise that it supports all existing user authentication technologies. This paper introduces the application security layer and describes the authentication management in the application security layer.

IoT-based Application of Information Security Triad

  • Mana Saleh Al Reshan
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.9
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2024
  • Information Security is the foremost concern for IoT (Internet of things) devices and applications. Since the advent of IoT, its applications and devices have experienced an exponential increase in numerous applications which are utilized. Nowadays we people are becoming smart because we started using smart devices like a smartwatch, smart TV, smart home appliances. These devices are part of the IoT devices. The IoT device differs widely in capacity storage, size, computational power, and supply of energy. With the rapid increase of IoT devices in different IoT fields, information security, and privacy are not addressed well. Most IoT devices having constraints in computational and operational capabilities are a threat to security and privacy, also prone to cyber-attacks. This study presents a CIA triad-based information security implementation for the four-layer architecture of the IoT devices. An overview of layer-wise threats to the IoT devices and finally suggest CIA triad-based security techniques for securing the IoT devices..Make sure that the abstract is written as one paragraph.

Method of Vulnerability Analysis from Layer Scanning (Layer별 Scanning을 사용한 취약성 분석 방법)

  • Chun, Woo-Sung;Park, Dea-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.277-280
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    • 2010
  • Network based on the OSI 7 Layer communication protocol is implemented, and the Internet TCP / IP Layer Based on the vulnerability is discovered and attacked. In this paper, using the programs on the network Layer Scanning conducted by the Layer-by each subsequent vulnerability analysis. Layer by Scanning each vulnerability analysis program to analyze the differences will be studied. Scanning for the studies in the program reflects the characteristics of the Scanning Features of way, and security countermeasures by each Layer is presented. The results of this study was to analyze its vulnerability to hackers and security for defense policy as the data is utilized to enhance the security of the network will contribute.

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Evaluating the web-application resiliency to business-layer DoS attacks

  • Alidoosti, Mitra;Nowroozi, Alireza;Nickabadi, Ahmad
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.433-445
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    • 2020
  • A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a serious attack that targets web applications. According to Imperva, DoS attacks in the application layer comprise 60% of all the DoS attacks. Nowadays, attacks have grown into application- and business-layer attacks, and vulnerability-analysis tools are unable to detect business-layer vulnerabilities (logic-related vulnerabilities). This paper presents the business-layer dynamic application security tester (BLDAST) as a dynamic, black-box vulnerability-analysis approach to identify the business-logic vulnerabilities of a web application against DoS attacks. BLDAST evaluates the resiliency of web applications by detecting vulnerable business processes. The evaluation of six widely used web applications shows that BLDAST can detect the vulnerabilities with 100% accuracy. BLDAST detected 30 vulnerabilities in the selected web applications; more than half of the detected vulnerabilities were new and unknown. Furthermore, the precision of BLDAST for detecting the business processes is shown to be 94%, while the generated user navigation graph is improved by 62.8% because of the detection of similar web pages.

A Study of Application Layer Traceback Through Intelligent SQL Query Analysis (지능형 SQL Query 분석을 통한 Application Layer 역추적 연구)

  • Baek, Jong-Il;Park, Dea-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.265-268
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    • 2010
  • Current Traceback is difficult due to the development of bypass technique Proxy and IP-driven to trace the real IP Source IP is the IP traceback after the actual verification is difficult. In this paper, an intelligent about SQL Query field, column, table elements such as analysis of the value and the matching key values and Data used here to analyze source user hit point values for the user to trace the Application Layer IP for the analysis of forensic evidence guided by In this study, including forensic DB security will contribute to the development of electronic trading.

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A SECURITY ARCHITECTURE FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS

  • Behrens, Reinhard;Ahmed, Ali
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.6092-6115
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    • 2017
  • This paper demonstrates a case for an end-to-end pure Application Security Layer for reliable and confidential communications within an Internet of Things (IoT) constrained environment. To provide a secure key exchange and to setup a secure data connection, Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used, which provides native protection against replay attacks. TLS along with digital signature can be used to achieve non-repudiation within app-to-app communications. This paper studies the use of TLS over the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) via a The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) RESTful service to verify the hypothesis that in this way one can provide end-to-end communication flexibility and potentially retain identity information for repudiation. As a proof of concept, a prototype has been developed to simulate an IoT software client with the capability of hosting a CoAP RESTful service. The prototype studies data requests via a network client establishing a TLS over JSON session using a hosted CoAP RESTful service. To prove reputability and integrity of TLS JSON messages, JSON messages was intercepted and verified against simulated MITM attacks. The experimental results confirm that TLS over JSON works as hypothesised.

Design and Implementation of TCP Supporting Optional Encryption Functionalities (선택적인 암호화 기능을 지원하는 TCP의 설계 및 구현)

  • Seong, Jeong-Gi;Kim, Eun-Gi
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.190-195
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    • 2018
  • Recently, Due to the ongoing increase in cyber attacks and the improved awareness of privacy protection, most Internet services encrypt the traffic by using security protocols. Existing security protocols usually have additional layer between transport layer and application layer, and they incur additional costs because of encrypting all the traffic transmitted. This results in unnecessary performance degradation because it also encrypts data that does not require confidentiality. In this paper, we propose TCP OENC(Optional Encryption) which enables users of the application layer to optionally encrypt only confidential data. TCP OENC operates by TCP option to allow the application layer to encrypt the TCP stream transmitted only on demand. And it ensures transparency between the TCP layer and the application layer. To verify this, we verified that TCP OENC optionally encrypts the stream of TCP session on the embedded board. And then analyzed the performance of the encrypted stream by measuring the elapsed time.

A Study on Application Method of Crypto-module for Industrial Control System (산업제어시스템(ICS) 암호모듈 적용방안 연구)

  • Seok, Byoungjin;Kim, Yeog;Lee, Changhoon
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.1001-1008
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    • 2017
  • Because cyber attacks on industrial control systems can lead to massive financial loss or loss of lives, the standardization and the research on cyber security of industrial control systems are actively under way. As a related system, the industrial control system of social infrastructures must be equipped with the verified cryptographic module according to the e-government law and appropriate security control should be implemented in accordance with the security requirements of the industrial control system. However, the industrial control system consisting of the operation layer, the control layer, and the field device layer may cause a problem in performing the main function in each layer due to the security control implementation. In this paper, we propose things to check when performing security control in accordance with the security control requirements for each layer of the industrial control system and proper application.

A PKI-based Secure Multiagent Engine (PKI 기반의 보안 다중 에이전트 엔진)

  • 장혜진
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.319-324
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    • 2002
  • The Integration of agent technology and security technology is needed to many application areas like electronic commerce. This paper suggests a model of extended multi-agent engine which supports privacy, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation on agent communication. Each agent which is developed with the agent engine is composed of agent engine layer and agent application layer. We describe and use the concepts self-to-self messages, secure communication channel, and distinction of KQML messages in agent application layer and messages in agent engine layer. The suggested agent engine provides an agent communication language which is extended to enable secure communication between agents without any modifications or restrictions to content layer and message layer of KQML. Also, in the model of our multi-agent engine, secure communication is expressed and processed transparently on the agent communication language.

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