• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3375-3400
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• 2018

With the advent of database-as-a-service (DAAS) and cloud computing, more and more data owners are motivated to outsource their data to cloud database in consideration of convenience and cost. However, it has become a challenging work to provide security to database as service model in cloud computing, because adversaries may try to gain access to sensitive data, and curious or malicious administrators may capture and leak data. In order to realize privacy preservation, sensitive data should be encrypted before outsourcing. In this paper, we present a secure and practical system over encrypted cloud data, called QSDB (queryable and secure database), which simultaneously supports SQL query operations. The proposed system can store and process the floating point numbers without compromising the security of data. To balance tradeoff between data privacy protection and query processing efficiency, QSDB utilizes three different encryption models to encrypt data. Our strategy is to process as much queries as possible at the cloud server. Encryption of queries and decryption of encrypted queries results are performed at client. Experiments on the real-world data sets were conducted to demonstrate the efficiency and practicality of the proposed system.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.688-710
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• 2016

Our approach permits to capitalize the expert's knowledge as business rules by using an agent-based platform. The objective of our approach is to allow experts to manage the daily evolutions of business domains without having to use a technician, and to allow them to be implied, and to participate in the development of the application to accomplish the daily tasks of their work. Therefore, the manipulation of an expert's knowledge generates the need for information security and other associated technologies. The notion of cryptography has emerged as a basic concept in business rules modeling. The purpose of this paper is to present a cryptographic algorithm based approach to integrate the security aspect in business rules modeling. We propose integrating an agent-based approach in the framework. This solution utilizes a security agent with domain ontology. This agent applies an encryption/decryption algorithm to allow for the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of the most important rules. To increase the security of these rules, we used hybrid cryptography in order to take advantage of symmetric and asymmetric algorithms. We performed some experiments to find the best encryption algorithm, which provides improvement in terms of response time, space memory, and security.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4604-4623
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• 2014

Authentication mechanisms coupled with strong encryption techniques are used for network security purposes; however, given sufficient time, well-equipped intruders are successful for compromising system security. The authentication protocols often fail when they are analysed critically. Formal approaches have emerged to analyse protocol failures. In this study, Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) which is an abstract language designed especially for the description of communication patterns is employed. Rank functions are also used for verification and analysis which are helpful to establish that some critical information is not available to the intruder. In order to establish this, by assigning a value or rank to each critical information, it is shown that all the critical information that can be generated within the network have a particular characterizing property. This paper presents an application of rank functions approach to an authentication protocol that combines delaying the decryption process with timed authentication while keys are dynamically renewed under pseudo-secure situations. The analysis and verification of authentication properties and results are presented and discussed.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.635-644
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• 2002

본 논문은 웹 시스템 환경에서 안전한 데이타 전송을 만족하는 Protocol-Based Security Module(PBSM) 구조를 제안한다. PBSM 구조는 크게 두개의 모듈로 구성된다. 하나는 웹 서버에서 동작하는 Web Server Sorority Module(WSSM)이고, 다른 하나는 클라이언트에서 동작하는 Winsock Client Security Module(WSCSM)이다. WSCSM 보안 모듈은 WSSM으로부터 받은 암호된 메시지를 정상적인 메시지로 변환하여 웹 브라우저에 나타나게 한다. WSSM 보안 모듈은 HTML 파일에 대한 암호화(Encryption)기능과 WSCSM 모듈로부터 받은 Common Gateway Interface(CGI) 데이타에 대한 복호화 기능을 가지고 있다. PBSM 보안 시스템의 보안 정확성을 검증하기 위하여 정형화 분석 기법을 이용했다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2020

웹사이트 로그인 정보 및 결제 정보들을 편리하게 관리하기 위해 패스워드 매니저를 이용하는 사용자가 증가하고 있다. 패스워드 매니저는 사용자의 웹사이트 로그인 정보 및 결제 정보들을 서버상에 암호화하여 저장하고, 사용자는 서버에 접속하여 패스워드 정보들을 수신하여 사용한다. 따라서, 공격자가 패스워드 매니저와 서버와의 통신 메시지를 스니핑하여 메시지 내용을 해독할 수 있거나, 또는 공격자가 사용자의 메모리 정보를 탈취하여 메시지 내용을 해독할 수 있으면, 사용자의 모든 패스워드 정보가 노출되는 심각한 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 주요 패스워드 매니저들의 클라이언트-서버 통신 및 암호 방법을 분석하고, 클라이언트-서버 통신에 심각한 취약점이 있음을 보인다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.686-698
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• 2021

A camouflaged encryption scheme based on Hadamard matrix and ghost imaging is proposed. In the process of the encryption, an orthogonal matrix is used as the projection pattern of ghost imaging to improve the definition of the reconstructed images. The ciphertext of the secret image is constrained to the camouflaged image. The key of the camouflaged image is obtained by the method of sparse decomposition by principal component orthogonal basis and the constrained ciphertext. The information of the secret image is hidden into the information of the camouflaged image which can improve the security of the system. In the decryption process, the authorized user needs to extract the key of the secret image according to the obtained random sequences. The real encrypted information can be obtained. Otherwise, the obtained image is the camouflaged image. In order to verify the feasibility, security and robustness of the encryption system, binary images and gray-scale images are selected for simulation and experiment. The results show that the proposed encryption system simplifies the calculation process, and also improves the definition of the reconstructed images and the security of the encryption system.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.983-990
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• 2022

In this paper, we implemented a hierarchical encryption system using two-step phase-shifting digital holography(PSDH) technology based on XOR and scramble operations. The proposed encryption system is a system that authenticates access through the issuance of an encryption key for access to individual laboratories, department offices, and universities. In the encryption process, we proposed a double encryption method using XOR and scramble operation with digital technology and two-step phase-shifting digital holography with optical technology. In the two-step PSDH process, an new method of determining the reference wave intensity without measuring it by using random common object image gererated from digital encryption process was also proposed. In the decryption process, the process is performed in the reverse order of encryption process. And only when the various key information used in the encryption process is correct, the encrypted information can be decrypted, so that the user can access the desired place. That is, there is a feature that can hierarchically control the space that can be accessed according to the type of key issued in the proposed encryption system. Through the computer simulation, the feasibility of the proposed hierarchical encryption system was confirmed.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.140-150
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• 2024

Database-as-a-Service is one of the prime services provided by Cloud Computing. It provides data storage and management services to individuals, enterprises and organizations on pay and uses basis. In which any enterprise or organization can outsource its databases to the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and query the data whenever and wherever required through any devices connected to the internet. The advantage of this service is that enterprises or organizations can reduce the cost of establishing and maintaining infrastructure locally. However, there exist some database security, privacychallenges and query performance issues to access data, to overcome these issues, in our recent research, developed a database security model using a deterministic encryption scheme, which improved query execution performance and database security level.As this model is implemented using a deterministic encryption scheme, it may suffer from chosen plain text attack, to overcome this issue. In this paper, we proposed a new model for cloud database security using nondeterministic encryption, order preserving encryption, homomorphic encryptionand database distribution schemes, andour proposed model supports execution of queries with equality check, range condition and aggregate operations on encrypted cloud database without decryption. This model is more secure with optimal query execution performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4568-4587
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• 2014

Authentication of videos and images based on the content is becoming an important problem in information security. Unfortunately, previous studies lack the consideration of Kerckhoffs's principle in order to achieve this (i.e., a cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge). In this paper, a solution to the problem of finding a relationship between a frame's index and its content is proposed based on the creative utilization of a robust manifold feature. The proposed solution is based on a novel semi-fragile watermarking scheme for H.264/AVC video content authentication. At first, the input I-frame is partitioned for feature extraction and watermark embedding. This is followed by the temporal feature extraction using the Isometric Mapping algorithm. The frame index is included in the feature to produce the temporal watermark. In order to improve security, the spatial watermark will be encrypted together with the temporal watermark. Finally, the resultant watermark is embedded into the Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients in the diagonal positions. At the receiver side, after watermark extraction and decryption, temporal tampering is detected through a mismatch between the frame index extracted from the temporal watermark and the observed frame index. Next, the feature is regenerate through temporal feature regeneration, and compared with the extracted feature. It is judged through the comparison whether the extracted temporal watermark is similar to that of the original watermarked video. Additionally, for spatial authentication, the tampered areas are located via the comparison between extracted and regenerated spatial features. Experimental results show that the proposed method is sensitive to intentional malicious attacks and modifications, whereas it is robust to legitimate manipulations, such as certain level of lossy compression, channel noise, Gaussian filtering and brightness adjustment. Through a comparison between the extracted frame index and the current frame index, the temporal tempering is identified. With the proposed scheme, a solution to the Kerckhoffs's principle problem is specified.

• 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

랜섬웨어에 의해 개인용 단말 또는 서버 등이 감염되는 사례가 급증하고 있다. 랜섬웨어는 자체 개발한 암호화 모듈을 이용하거나 기존의 대칭키/공개 키 암호화 모듈을 결합하여 공격자만이 알고 있는 키를 이용하여 피해 시스템 내에 저장된 파일을 불법적으로 암호화 하게 된다. 따라서 이를 복호화 하기 위해서는 사용된 키 값을 알아야만 하며, 복호화 키를 찾는 과정에 많은 시간이 걸리므로 결국 금전적인 비용을 지불하게 된다. 이때 랜섬웨어 악성코드는 대부분 바이너리 파일 내에 은닉된 형태로 포함되어 있어 프로그램 실행시 사용자도 모르게 악성코드에 감염된다. 그러므로 바이너리 파일 형태의 랜섬웨어 공격에 대응하기 위해서는 사용된 암호화 모듈에 대한 식별 과정이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 바이너리 파일 내 은닉된 악성코드에 적용 된 암호화 모듈을 역분석하여 탐지하고 식별할 수 있는 메커니즘을 연구하였다.