• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.213-219
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• 2002

A secret sharing scheme is a kind of cryptographic protocol to maintain secret information by splitting it to many small pieces of shares and sharing between shareholders. In case of shareholders having different authorization to reconstruct the original secret, it is required a new secret sharing scheme to reflect any hierarchical structure between shareholders. In this paper, we propose a new weighted secret sharing scheme, that is, each shareholder has a weight according to the authorization of reconstructing the secret and an access set which is a subset of shareholders can reconstruct the secret if the sum of weights is equal or greater than a predefined threshold.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.53-64
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• 2005

In this paper, proposes Kerberos certification mechanism that improve certification service of PKINIT base that announce in IETF CAT Working Croup. Also proposed Authentication Mechanism for reusability of Ticket that after Ticket's Lifetime is ended, message exchange that Local Client receives Remote Server's service. Since my suggestion to regional services are not described in Kerberos, authentication between regions can be performed via PKINIT(Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication) presented by IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force) CAT working group. The new protocol is better than the authentication mechanism proposed by IETF CAT Working group in terms of communication complexity and mechanism according to simplified Ticket issue processing.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1438-1441
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• 2009

RFID 시스템에서 태그는 객체를 유일하게 식별하기 위한 정보를 가지고 있기 때문에 개인정보의 노출, 위치 추적 등의 프라이버시 침해를 유발할 수 있는 문제점이 있다. 태그가 다양한 목적을 위해 사용되어지는 경우 키 분배, 키 관리 등의 문제로 인해 공개키 암호화 기법이 적용될 수 있다. 공개키 암호화 기법을 이용한 기존 RFID 인증 프로토콜에서는 서버와 태그 사이에 공개키를 사전에 공유하고 있다고 가정을 하여 설계를 하였다. 하지만 하나의 태그가 다양한 목적으로 사용되는 다목적 구조에서 수동형 RFID 태그가 서로 다른 서버의 공개키를 모두 공유한다는 것은 현실적으로 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 다목적 구조에서 XOR 연산과 리더와 태그가 사전에 공유한 마스터 키($K_m$)를 사용하여 태그에게 공개키를 안전하게 전달하며 이를 이용한 공개키 암호화 기반의 RFID 인증 프로토콜을 제안한다. 또한 제안한 인증 프로토콜은 프라이버시 침해를 유발할 수 있는 도청, 재전송 공격, 위치 추적과 같은 공격에도 안전성을 보장한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.844-847
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• 2011

Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a type of mobile ad-hoc network consists of wireless router, mobile clients and gateway which connects the network with the Internet. To provide security in the network it is required to encrypt the message sent among the communicating nodes in such way so that only legitimate user can retrieve the original data. Several security mechanisms have been proposed so far to enhance the security of WMN. However, there still exists a need for a comprehensive mechanism to prevent attacks in data communication. Considering the characteristic of mesh network, in this paper we proposed a public key cryptography based security architecture to establish a secure key agreement among communicating nodes in mesh network. The proposed security architecture consists of two major sections: client data protection and network data protection. Client data protection deals with the mutual authentication between the client and the access router and provide client to access router encryption for data confidentiality using standard IEEE 802.11i protocol. On the other hand, network data protection ensures encrypted routing and data transfer in the multi hop backbone network. For the network data protection, we used the pre-distributed public key to form a secure backbone infrastructure.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.122-133
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• 1999

Uses can share information and use resources effectively by using TCP/IP-based networks. So, a protocol to manage complex networks effectively is needed. For the management of the distributed networks, the SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol) has been adopted as an international standard in 1989, and the SNMPv2 in which a security function was added was published in 1993. There are two encryption schemes in SNMPv2, the one is a DES using symmetric encryption scheme and the other is a MD5(Message Digest5) hash function for authentication. But the DES has demerits that a key length is a few short and the encryption and the authentication is executed respectively. In order to solve these problems, wer use a RSA cryptography in this paper. In this paper, we examine the items related with SNMP. In addition to DES and MD5 propose in SNMPv3, we chance security functionality by adopting RSA, a public key algorithm executing the encryption and the authentication simultaneously. The proposed SNMPv3 security module is written in JAVA under Windows NT environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.149-157
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• 2003

Recently, the Internet enhanced by development of IT makes the processing and exchanging of information, As the Internet is sending and receiving digitized documents over the Internet e-mail system. The security of document information is being threated when exchanging digitized documents over an open network such as the Internet. The degree of threat is even higher when sensitive documents are involved Therefore, in this paper, the secure e-mail system on a client is designed and implemented in order to make secure exchanging of digitized documents. By using the public key infrastructure in which encrypted mail transmission, proof of delivery and integrity of the message are garanted, unauthorized manipulation, illegal acquisition and mutual authentication problem can be prevented in order to secure the document information which is crucial and sensible when exchanging the digitized document over the Internet. Futhenmore, by using the SET protocol based on public key cryptography, the secure mail system is designed and implemented in order for the users not having any professional knowledge to deal with the system easily and friendly in GUI environment.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.161-168
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• 2002

A secret sharing scheme is a cryptographic protocol to share a secret among a set of participants P in the way that only qualified subsets of P can reconstruct the secret whereas any other subset of P, non-qualified to know the secret, cannot determine anything about the secret. In this paper, we propose a new secret sharing scheme in hierarchical groups, whose hierarchy can be represented as a tree structure. In the tree structure, participants of higher levels have priorities to reconstruct the secret over participants of lower levels. In the absence of the participant of a higher level, it is possible for this participant to delegate the ability to reconstruct the secret to the child nodes of the next lower level through the transfer of his delegation ticket. This scheme has a dynamic access structure through the recursive delegation process from the root to lower levels where participants aren't absent.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.199-206
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• 2003

one of the representative micropayment protocols. The original PayWord system is designed for a user who generates paywords by performing hash chain operation for payment to an only designated vendor. In other words, a user has to create new hash chain values in order to establish commercial transactions with different vendors on the Internet. Therefore, we suggest an efficient scheme that is able to deal with business to different vendors by using only one hash chain operation to supplement this drawback. In this proposed system, a broker creates a new series of hash chain values along with a certificate for the user's certificate request. This certificate is signed by a broker to give authority enabling a user to generate hash chain values. hew hash chain values generated by a broker provide means to a user to do business with multiple vendors.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.5C
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• pp.737-749
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• 2004

Kerberos authenticates clients using symmetric-key cryptography, and supposed to Oust other systems of the realm in distributed network environment. But, authentication and authorization are essential elements for the security. In this paper, we design an efficient and secure authentication/authorization mechanism by introducing the public/private-key and installing the proxy privilege server to Kerberos. In the proposed mechanism, to make a system more secure, the value of the session key is changed everytime using MAC(message authentication code) algorithm with the long-term key for user-authentication and a random number exchanged through the public key. Also, we reduce the number of keys by simplifying authentication steps. Proxy privilege server certifies privilege request of client and issues a privilege attribute certificate. Application server executes privilege request of client which is included a privilege attribute certificate. Also, a privilege attribute certificate is used in delegation. We design an efficient and secure authentication/authorization algorithm with Kerberos.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.39-44
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• 2020

In this paper, we show a modified Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol that can exchange keys by exposing only minimal information using pre-computable session key pairs. The discrete logarithm problem, which provides the safety of existing Diffie-Hellman and Diffie-Hellman based techniques, is modified to prevent exposure of primitive root. We prove the algorithm's operation by applying the actual value to the proposed scheme and compare the execution time and safety with the existing algorithm, shown that the security of the algorithm is improved more than the product of the time complexity of the two base algorithms while maintaining the computation amount at the time of key exchange. Based on the proposed algorithm, it is expected to provide a key exchange environment with improved security.