• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 2019

As the number of harmful sites increases, many social problems are occurring. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, the government is carrying out activities to block access to web sites to harmful sites based on the law. However, due to the change from HTTP to HTTPS protocol, it has become difficult to block the harmful sites in the existing method. In the existing HTTP protocol, a method of blocking the site corresponding to the harmful site domain list by utilizing the DNS information was used. However, due to the generalization of HTTPS, it is difficult to block the harmful sites in the existing method. Therefore, the ISP uses the method of blocking the website using the SNI field in the TLS (Transport Layer Security) Handshake protocol used for HTTPS. However, since the method using SNI field raises the concern of monitoring Internet users or exposing information about connected sites, in this paper, we proposed method which can support anonymity to Internet users while blocking harmful sites. The suggested method also can support integrity and source authentication to the transmitted data.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.430-439
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• 2020

The government of the Republic of Korea has introduced SNI blocking method since February 2019 to block illegal sites. Currently, this policy has been considered as a controversial policy in South Korea therefore, about 270,000 South Koreans have been calmed down by and the presidential office petition because people believe that blocking https by SNI would invasion of privacy and freedom of use of the Internet. As soon as the SNI blocking method was used, the bypass method was opened to the Internet, causing side effects. In this study, identifies the development of Internet blocking technology and the development of new technology that bypasses the technology. It also examines Internet censorship in other countries and identifies problems in blocking technology. Through this study would present policy suggestions and technical methodologies for sound Internet use.