• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1093-1100
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• 2008

Feistel and SPN are the two main structures in designing a block cipher algorithm. Unlike Feistel, an SPN has an asymmetric structure in encryption and decryption. In this paper we propose an SPN algorithm which has a symmetric structure in encryption and decryption. The whole operations in our SPN algorithm are composed of the even numbers of N rounds where the first half of them, 1 to N/2, applies function and the last half of them, (N+1)/2 to N, employs inverse function. Symmetry layer is executed to create a symmetry block in between function layer and inverse function layer. AES encryption and decryption algorithm, whose safety is already proved, are exploited for function and inverse function, respectively. In order to be secure enough against the byte or word unit-based attacks, 32bit rotation and simple logical operations are performed in symmetry layer. Due to the simplicity of the proposed encryption and decryption algorithm in hardware configuration, the proposed algorithm is believed to construct a safe and efficient cipher in Smart Card and RFID environments where electronic chips are built in.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.31-42
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• 2005

We consider a network storage model whose administrator can not be fully trusted. In this model, we assume that all data stored are encrypted for data confidentiality and one owner distributes the decryption key for each time period to users. In this paper, we propose three privilege management schemes. In the first scheme, called Temporal Privilege Management (TPM), we use a symmetric encryption based on one-way function chains for key encapsulation. In the second scheme, called Asymmetric Temporal Privilege Management (ATPM), anyone can encrypt the data using the public key of owner, but only privileged users can decrypt the encrypted data. Finally, we present a scheme to restrict writers' privilege using ID-based signatures in ATPM. In our schemes, the privilege managements are based on the time and the addition of users is efficient. Specially, applying TPM and ATPM, we can solve the back-issue problem.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.288-295
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• 2007

The illegal copying and redistribution of digitally-stored information is a crucial problem to distributors who electronically sell digital data. fingerprinting scheme is a technique which supports copyright protection to track redistributors of electronic information using cryptographic techniques. Anonymous asymmetric fingerprinting scheme prevents the merchant from framing a buyer by making the fingerprinted version known to the buyer only. And this scheme allows the buyer to purchase goods without revealing her identity to the seller. In this paper, a new anonymous asymmetric fingerprinting scheme with TTP is introduced. The buyer's fingerprint is generated by the Fingerprint Certificate Authority which is a TTP. When the seller embeds the fingerprint in the digital data, the protocol uses the homomorphic encryption scheme. Thus the seller cannot know the buyer's fingerprint and the buyer's anonymity is guaranteed by using anonymous key pair.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1231-1242
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• 2012

Traitor tracing schemes deter traitors from sharing their private keys by tracing at least one of the subscribers who were implicated in the construction of a pirate decoder. In general, it is assumed that the system manager in the scheme generates and distributes the subscribers' private key. But if the system manager knows the subscribers' private keys, he cannot convince a third party of a certain subscriber's piracy. To solve this problem, the system manager should not know the whole parts of subscribers' private keys and this leads to researches of asymmetric schemes. Moreover for the purpose of enhancing subscribers' privacy, there were two proposals of introducing anonymity onto asymmetric traitor tracing schemes, but one of them turned out to be a failure. In this paper, we point out that the other proposal also has flaws. We consider how to introduce anonymity to traitor tracing schemes, as a result, we suggest a new framework which is practical. We also construct a scheme by using an anonymous credential system and an asymmetric traitor tracing scheme. We prove the security of our scheme and consider the typical applications.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.49-60
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• 1999

IC 카드의 하드웨어적인 제약으로 대부분의 IC 카드는 대칭키 알고리즘을 사용하고 있지만 IC 카드 하드웨어 제조 기술의 발전으로 앞으로는 보안성이 우수한 비대 칭키 알고리즘이 많이 사용될 것이다. 그리고 IC 카드의 가장 큰 제약적 중 하나는 메모리 용량의 한계이다. 따라서 보안상 안전하면서도 메모리를 적게 사용하는 IC 카드 운영체제의 구현을 중요한 문제이다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 다양한 종류의 키 알고리즘을 수용할 수 있는 키 파일 탐색 기법을 제안하였다. 또한 데이터 파일 헤더에 잠금 필드를 삽입하여 보안성을 향상시켰으며 메모리 사용량을 줄일 수 있도록 데이터 파일 헤더만을 이용한 파일 탐색 기법과 자유 공간 탐색 기법을 제안하였다. Because of the evolution of IC card hardware fabrication technologies IC card will be able to accept asymmetric key encryption algorithm in the future. One of the most restrictive points of IC card is memory capacity. Therefore it is an important problem to design a secure IC card operating system using memory in small. In this paper we proposed a key file search mechanism using a key length field inserted in a key file header structure. The key file search mechanism makes IC card execute any key-based encryption algorithm. In addition we proposed inserting a lock field in data file header structure. The lock field intensifies the security of a data file. Finally we proposed a data file search mechanism and free space search mechanism using only data file header. The file system using these mechanisms spends smaller memory than that using a file description table and record of unallocated space.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.333-342
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• 2022

Cellular Automata (CA) is a discrete and abstract computational model that is being applied in various fields. Applicable as an excellent pseudo-random sequence generator, CA has recently developed into a basic element of cryptographic systems. Several studies on CA-based stream ciphers have been conducted and it has been observed that the encryption strength increases when the radius of a CA's neighbor is increased when appropriate CA rules are used. In this paper, among CAs that can be applied as a one-dimensional pseudo-random number sequence generator (PRNG), one-dimensional 5-neighbor CAs are classified according to the connection state of their neighbors, and the ignition relationship of the characteristic polynomial is obtained. Also this paper propose a synthesis algorithm for an asymmetric 1-D linear 5-neighbor MLCA in which the radius of the neighbor is increased by 2 using the one-dimensional 3-neighbor 90/150 CA state transition matrix.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.2326-2337
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• 2013

Many applications can be parallelized by using multicore platforms. We propose a load-balancing technique for parallelizing a whole application, whose first module (H.264) has data independency and whose second module (AES) has data dependency. Instead of distributing the first module symmetrically over the multi-core platform, we distribute the data-independent workload asymmetrically in order to start the data-dependent workload as early as possible. Based on the experimental results with a compression/encryption application, we confirm that the asymmetric load balancing can provide better performance than the typical symmetric load balancing.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.203-206
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• 2010

블루투스(Bluetooth)는 별도의 인증 기관 없이 각 디바이스간의 독립적인 인증과정을 통해 데이터를 서로 전송하는 기술을 사용하고 있다. 바로 이러한 특징 때문에 인증 기반 기관을 이용한 네트워크에서 발생하는 문제점과는 다른 특징을 가진 문제점들이 나타날 수 있으며, 그 외에도 부인방지나 무결성이 제공되지 않아 스마트단말기의 경우 많은 취약점이 될 수가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 블루투스 암호화 인증과정의 취약점을 보완하고자 비대칭키 암호화기법을 활용한 전자서명기법과 대칭키 암호화기법을 사용하여 향상된 블루투스 암호화 인증과정을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.2708-2721
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• 2014

Data outsourcing in the cloud (DOC) is a promising solution for data management at the present time, but it could result in the disclosure of outsourced data to unauthorized users. Therefore, protecting the confidentiality of such data has become a very challenging issue. The conventional way to achieve data confidentiality is to encrypt the data via asymmetric or symmetric encryptions before outsourcing. However, this is computationally inefficient because encryption/decryption operations are time-consuming. In recent years, a few DOC schemes based on secret sharing have emerged due to their low computational complexity. However, Dautrich and Ravishankar pointed out that most of them are insecure against certain kinds of collusion attacks. In this paper, we proposed a novel DOC scheme based on Shamir's secret sharing to overcome the security issues of these schemes. Our scheme can allow an authorized data user to recover all data files in a specified subset at once rather than one file at a time as required by other schemes that are based on secret sharing. Our thorough analyses showed that our proposed scheme is secure and that its performance is satisfactory.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.411-420
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• 1999

The topic of electronic commerce is a hot issue in computer technology. There are many kinds of risks associated with electronic commerce which performs financial transactions by exchanging electronic information over public networks. Therefore, security factors such as confidentiality, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation should be required to construct secure electronic commerce systems. In this paper, the credit card-based payment protocol applying dual signature is presented. It provides payment information to the bank a cardholder pays to, but conceals ordering information. It also offers ordering information to a merchant, but hides payment information including the card number. Thus, cardholder's private information can be protected. In order to accomplish this, dual signature is performed employing both symmetric method utilizing cardholder's secret number as an encryption key and asymmetric method.