• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.41-51
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• 2018

Format preserving encryption(FPE) performs encryption with preserving the size and format of plain-text. Therefore, it is possible to minimize the structural change of the database before and after the encryption. For example, when encrypting data such as credit card number or social security number, it is possible to maintain the existing database structure because FPE outputs the same form of cipher-text as plain-text. Currently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends FF1 and FF3 as standards for FPE. Recently, in Korea, FEA, which is a very efficient FPE algorithm, has been adopted as the standard of FPE. In this paper, we analyze FEA and measure the performance of FEA by optimizing it in various environments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.1371-1378
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• 2018

Bluetooth is the key technology in the wireless connection of many Internet of Things (IoT) devices, especially focused on smartphones today. In addition, Bluetooth communication between the IoT device and the user is mainly performed via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), but as the Bluetooth technology gradually develops, the security vulnerability of the existing BLE is more prominent. Research on Bluetooth accessibility has been conducted steadily so far, but there is lack of research for data protection in Bluetooth communication. Therefore, in this paper, when sending and receiving data in BLE communication between IoT and users, we propose effective methods for communicating with each other through the Format Preserving Encryption Algorithm (FEA), not the plain text, and measures performance of FEA which is optimized in Arduino and PC.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.805-811
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• 2018

Recently, Format-Preserving-Encryption (FEA) was suggested by the National Security Research institute (NSR) as an encryption method while maintaining the format without a distortion to the intended information to be encrypted. In this paper, we propose a scheme to solve conventional cyber security problems by using FEA scheme. First, we present the method to encrypt signatures and extensions with FEA in order to effectively defend against Ransomeware attacks. This technique can mitigate the exposure to the Ransomeware by encrypting the minimum information. Second, in order to reduce the secret information for Steganography, we introduce a new way to minimize the secret information with FEA. Finally, we compare the operation speed by encryption with FEA and Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA), furthermore when we optimize FEA we want to compare with the performance improvement accompanying with it.