• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.252-262
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• 2024

The multi-hop wireless sensor network (WSN) suffers from energy limitation and eavesdropping attacks. We propose a simple and energy-efficient convergecast mechanism using inter-flow random linear network coding that can provide confidentiality to the multi-hop WSN. Our scheme consists of two steps, constructing a logical tree of sensor nodes rooted at the sink node, with using the Bloom filter, and transmitting sensory data encoded by sensor nodes along the logical tree upward to the sink where the encoded data are decoded according to our proposed multi-hop network coding (MHNC) mechanism. We conducted simulations using OMNET++ CASTALIA-3.3 framework and validated that MHNC outperforms the conventional mechanism in terms of packet delivery ratio, data delivery time and energy efficiency.

• 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 KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.108-117
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• 2009

Data aggregation is one of the well-known techniques to reduce the energy consumption for information transmission over wireless sensor networks (WSN). As the WSNs are deployed in untrusted or even hostile environments, the data aggregation becomes problematic when end-to-end data privacy including data confidentiality and integrity between sensor nodes and base station, is required. Meanwhile, data homomorphic cryptoschemes have been investigated recently and recommended to provide the end-to-end privacy in the hostile environments. In order to assure both data confidentiality and integrity for data aggregation, this paper analyzes the existing homomorphic cryptoschemes and digital signature schemes, proposes possible combinations, and evaluates their performance in terms of CPU overheads and communication costs.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.389-394
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• 2012

The cloud computing is a system that provides IT resources service by using internet technologies, which grabs lots of attention today. Though cloud storage services provide service users with convenience, there is a problem in which data confidentiality is not guaranteed because it is hard for data owners to control the access to the data. This article suggested the technique by applying Public-Key Cryptosystem only to a block after dividing users' data into blocks in order to protect users' data in cloud system. Thus confidentiality and integrity are given to users' data stored in cloud storage server.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.469-472
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• 2000

Security-related issues in mobile communications are increasing. The security requirements of mobile communications for the mobile users include authentication of the mobile user, the data confidentiality, the data confidentiality and the location privacy of mobile user. These services require security features compatible with the wireline networks. However, wireless networks have many restrictions compare to wireline networks such as the limited computational capability of mobile equipment and limited resource(bandwidth) between a mobile user and a fixed network. So, security features for IMT-2000 are designed to meet the limited capacity. In this paper, we analyze the required security features and mechanism, and design network access security feature effective for IMT-2000 Systems. The design includes security functions allocation to each system. Finally, discuss the computational power of each system based on at]coated functions to it

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.855-866
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• 2004

In many surveys, one of the most important goals is to obtain reliable and valid responses from respondents. To achieve the goal, a researcher have to make efforts to protect respondents' confidentiality and to reduce the effects of social desirability on answers. The key question of this paper is whether the position of demographic questions have an effect on responses. Two types of questionnaires are considered: one puts the demographic questions at the beginning and the other does at the last. On both types, I asked only a small number of demographic questions which are considered as essential on analytic purposes. The results show no evidence of position effects when the risk to threat confidentiality was minimized.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.26-31
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• 2016

In a cloud computing environment, a cryptographic service allows an information owner to encrypt the information and send it to a cloud server as well as to receive and decode encrypted data from the server which guarantees the confidentiality of shared information. However, if an attacker gains a coded data and has access to an encryption key via cloud server, then the server will be unable to prevent data leaks by a cloud service provider. In this paper, we proposed a key management server which does not allow an attacker to access to a coded key of the owners and prevents data leaks by a cloud service provider. A key management server provides a service where a server receives a coded public key of an information user from an owner and delivers a coded key to a user. Using a key management server proposed in this paper, we validated that the server can secure the confidentiality of an encryption key of data owners and efficiently distribute keys to data users.

• Proceedings of the Korea Database Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.11-26
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• 2000

o 정보 보호란\ulcorner : 데이터 및 시스템을 고의적 혹은 실수에 의한 불법적인 공개(노출), 변조, 파괴 및 지체로부터의 보호. o 정보보호의 목표 - 비밀성 (Confidentiality)의 보장 - 무결성 (Integrity)의 보장 (중략)

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.129-135
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• 2010

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an emerging technology and offers economically viable monitoring solution to many challenging applications. However, deploying new technology in hostile environment, without considering security in mind has often proved to be unreasonably unsecured. Apparently, security techniques face many critical challenges in WSNs like data security and secrecy due to its hostile deployment nature. In order to resolve security in WSNs, we propose a novel and efficient secure framework called TriSec: a secure data framework for wireless sensor networks to attain high level of security. TriSec provides data confidentiality, authentication and data integrity to sensor networks. TriSec supports node-to-node encryption using PingPong-128 stream cipher based-privacy. A new PingPong-MAC (PP-MAC) is incorporated with PingPong stream cipher to make TriSec framework more secure. PingPong-128 is fast keystream generation and it is very suitable for sensor network environment. We have implemented the proposed scheme on wireless sensor platform and our result shows their feasibility.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.323-342
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• 2021

Personal health records (PHRs) is an electronic medical system that enables patients to acquire, manage and share their health data. Nevertheless, data confidentiality and user privacy in PHRs have not been handled completely. As a fine-grained access control over health data, ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) has an ability to guarantee data confidentiality. However, existing CP-ABE solutions for PHRs are facing some new challenges in access control, such as policy privacy disclosure and dynamic policy update. In terms of addressing these problems, we propose a privacy protection and dynamic share system (PPADS) based on CP-ABE for PHRs, which supports full policy hiding and flexible access control. In the system, attribute information of access policy is fully hidden by attribute bloom filter. Moreover, data user produces a transforming key for the PHRs Cloud to change access policy dynamically. Furthermore, relied on security analysis, PPADS is selectively secure under standard model. Finally, the performance comparisons and simulation results demonstrate that PPADS is suitable for PHRs.