• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3401-3420
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• 2018

Pixel expansion and contrast are two major performance parameters for visual cryptography scheme (VCS), which is a type of secret image sharing. Random Grid (RG) is an alternative approach to solve the pixel expansion problem. Chen and Tsao proposed the first (k, n) RG-based VCS, and then Guo et al., Wu et al., Shyu, and Yan et al. significantly improved the contrast in recent years. However, the investigations on improving the contrast of threshold RG-based VCS are not sufficient. In this paper, we develop a contrast-improved algorithm for (k, n) RG-based VCS. Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperformers the previous threshold algorithms with better visual quality and a higher accuracy of contrast.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2019

Along with the recent advances in quantum computers, it is anticipated that cryptographic attacks using them will make it insecure to use existing public key algorithms such as RSA and ECC. Currently, a lot of researches are underway to replace them by devising PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography) schemes. In this paper, we propose a performance enhancement method for Lizard implementation which is one of NIST PQC standardization submission. The proposed method is able to improve the performance by 7 ~ 25% for its algorithms compared to the implementation in the submission through the techniques of various implementation aspects. This study hopes that Lizard will become more competitive as a candidate for PQC standardization.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.522-531
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• 2018

FIPS 186-2에 정의된 224-비트 소수체 타원곡선 암호와 2048-비트 키길이의 RSA 암호를 단일 하드웨어로 통합 구현한 공개키 암호 프로세서 EC-RSA를 설계하였다. ECC의 스칼라 곱셈과 RSA의 멱승 연산에 공통으로 사용되는 유한체 연산장치를 32 비트 데이터 패스로 구현하였으며, 이들 연산장치와 내부 메모리를 ECC와 RSA 연산에서 효율적으로 공유함으로써 경량화된 하드웨어로 구현하였다. EC-RSA 프로세서를 FPGA에 구현하여 하드웨어 동작을 검증하였으며, 180-nm CMOS 셀 라이브러리로 합성한 결과 11,779 GEs와 14 kbit의 RAM으로 구현되었고, 최대 동작 주파수는 133 MHz로 평가되었다. ECC의 스칼라 곱셈 연산에 867,746 클록 사이클을 소요되어 34.3 kbps의 처리율을 가지며, RSA의 복호화 연산에 26,149,013 클록 사이클이 소요되어 10.4 kbps의 처리율을 갖는 것으로 평가되었다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2022년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.101-103
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• 2022

타원곡선 암호 (elliptic curve cryptography; ECC)는 효율적인 하드웨어 구현이 가능하면서 높은 보안 강도를 가져 오늘날 IoT 기기나 V2X 통신의 공개키 보안 하드웨어 구현에 폭넓게 사용되고 있다. 그러나 ECC 기반의 공개키 보안 시스템은 부채널 공격 (side channel attacks; SCA)에 대한 일부 보안 취약점을 갖는 것으로 알려지고 있어 ECC 프로세서 설계 시 보안공격에 대한 대응 방법의 적용이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 부채널 공격 유형과 ECC 프로세서 설계에 적용할 수 있는 부채널 공격 대응 방안에 대해 알아본다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.1329-1342
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• 2018

최근 양자 컴퓨터에 대한 개발이 활발히 진행되면서, 기존에 널리 사용되고 있는 RSA와 타원곡선 암호 알고리즘의 안전성에 대한 문제가 제기되고 있다. 이에 대응하기 위하여 미국 표준기술연구원(NIST)은 양자 컴퓨팅 환경에서도 안전한 공개키 암호 기법에 대한 표준화 작업을 진행하고 있다. 대표적인 포스트 양자 암호(post-quantum cryptography, PQC) 기법으로는 격자기반 암호(lattice-based cryptography)가 있으며, NIST의 PQC 표준화 공모에도 다양한 격자기반 암호 기법들이 제안되었다. 이 중 EMBLEM은 기존의 LWE (learning with errors) 가정을 기반으로 하여 설계된 암호 기법들과는 달리, 더 직관적이고 효율적으로 암/복호화가 가능한 새로운 다중 비트 암호화 방법을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 LWR(learning with rounding) 가정을 추가적으로 사용하여 더 효율적으로 동작하는 다중 비트 암호화 기법을 제안한다. 그리고 제안하는 기법의 안전성을 증명하고, EMBLEM 및 R.EMBLEM과의 비교를 통해 효율성을 분석한다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.119-127
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• 2004

A mobile ad hoc network(MANET) is a network where a set of mobile devices communicate among themselves using wireless transmission without the support of a fixed network infrastructure. The use of wireless links makes MANET susceptible to attack. Eavesdroppers can access secret information, violating network confidentiality, and compromised nodes can launch attack from within a network. Therefore, the security for MANET depends on using the cryptographic key, which can make the network reliable. In addition, because MANET has a lot of mobile devices, the authentication scheme utilizing only the symmetric key cryptography can not support a wide range of device authentication. Thereby, PKI based device authentication technique in the Ad Hoc network is essential and the paper will utilize the concept of PKI. Especially, this paper is focused on the key management technique of PKI technologies that can offer the advantage of the key distribution, authentication, and non-reputation, and the issuing and managing technique of certificates based on clustering using Threshold Cryptography for secure communication in MANET.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.253-270
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• 2021

In January 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the CAESAR (Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness) contest to identify authenticated ciphers that are suitable for a wide range of applications. A total of 57 submissions made it into the first round of the competition out of which 6 were announced as winners in March 2019. In the process of the competition, NIST realized that most of the authenticated ciphers submitted were not suitable for resource-constrained devices used as end nodes in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform. For that matter, the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process was set up to identify authenticated encryption and hashing algorithms for IoT devices. The call for submissions was initiated in 2018 and in April 2019, 56 submissions made it into the first round of the competition. In August 2019, 32 out of the 56 submissions were selected for the second round which is due to end in the year 2021. This work surveys the 32 authenticated encryption schemes that made it into the second round of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process. The paper presents an easy-to-understand comparative overview of the recommended parameters, primitives, mode of operation, features, security parameter, and hardware/software performance of the 32 candidate algorithms. The paper goes further by discussing the challenges of the Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process and provides some suitable recommendations.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2004

Conventional and public-key cryptography has been widely accepted as a base technology for the design of computer security systems. D-classes have the potential for application to conventional and public-key cryptography. However, there are very few results on D-classes because the computational complexity of D-class computation is NP-complete. This paper discusses the design of algorithms for the efficient computation of D-classes and the Java implementation of them. In addition, the paper implements the same D-class computation algorithms in C and shows the performance of C and Java programming languages for the computation-intensive applications by comparing their execution results.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2013

Cloud computing is a currently developing revolution in information technology that is disturbing the way that individuals and corporate entities operate while enabling new distributed services that have not existed before. At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services. Security is often said to be a major concern of users considering migration to cloud computing. This article examines some of these security concerns and surveys recent research efforts in cryptography to provide new technical mechanisms suitable for the new scenarios of cloud computing. We consider techniques such as homomorphic encryption, searchable encryption, proofs of storage, and proofs of location. These techniques allow cloud computing users to benefit from cloud server processing capabilities while keeping their data encrypted; and to check independently the integrity and location of their data. Overall we are interested in how users may be able to maintain and verify their own security without having to rely on the trust of the cloud provider.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2024

Using random numbers to represent uncertainty and unpredictability is essential in many industries. This is crucial in disciplines like computer science, cryptography, and statistics where the use of randomness helps to guarantee the security and dependability of systems and procedures. In computer science, random number generation is used to generate passwords, keys, and other security tokens as well as to add randomness to algorithms and simulations. According to recent research, the hardware random number generators used in billions of Internet of Things devices do not produce enough entropy. This article describes how raw data gathered by IoT system sensors can be used to generate random numbers for cryptography systems and also examines the results of these random numbers. The results obtained have been validated by successfully passing the FIPS 140-1 and NIST 800-22 test suites.