• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.12D no.3 s.99
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• pp.499-506
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• 2005

A hash chain is a structure organized by hash function with high speed in computation. Systems using the hash chain are using extensively in various cryptography applications such as one-time passwords, server-supported signatures and micropayments. However, the most hash chain based on the system using pre-paid method provides anonymity but has the problem to increase payment cost. In this paper, we propose a new hash chain based on the micropayment system to keep user anonymity safe through blind signature in the withdrawal process of the root value without disclosing privacy information, and to improve efficiency by using secret key instead of public key in the system without the role of certificate.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.462-470
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• 2005

A hash chain is highly efficient and attractive structure to use in electronic cash. Previous systems using hash chain are used extensively in various cryptography applications such as one-time passwords, server-supported signatures and microments. However, The most hash chain based systems using fro-paid method provide anonymity but have the problem to increase payment cost. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new hash chain based microment system which improves efficiency using session key and guarantees user anonymity through blind signature in the withdrawal process of the root value without disclosing privacy Information.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.3858-3869
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a hash-chain based friendly force identification protocol for personal combatants equipped with a personal combat system in a tactical wireless network. It is imperative in military operations to effectively and quickly identify friendly forces. If the identification of friendly forces is not correct, this can cause friendly fire. In current ground operations, the identification of friendly forces by personal combatants is neither secure nor safe. To address this issue, the proposed protocol uses a hash-chain to determine if a detected person is friendly. Only friendly forces with the same materials that are assigned before they deploy can construct an initial hash-chain. Moreover, the hash-chain is changed at specific times. The performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated on the assumption that the secret key is leaked, which is the worst scenario in the security research field. We verify that the proposed protocol is secure for the various attack scenarios, such as message replay attack, fabrication attack, and Denial of Service attack.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.77-83
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• 2016

A new key generation scheme is proposed to support partial encryption and partial decryption of data in cloud computing environment with a minimal key-related traffic overhead. Our proposed scheme employs a concept of hash tree chain to reduce the number of keys that need to be delivered to the decryption node. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated through simulation.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.560-566
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• 2009

A low-power Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system is an auto-identification technology that reads and writes an information of things without physical contacts using radio frequency. It is unescapable against unlawful modification, eavesdropping, tracking, or privacy of individuals because RFID systems use the radio frequency and RFID tags. Therefore we create a key using hash chain between database and tag and this process can prevent above attacks. Also we support the efficiency of proposed protocol using hash function to abate computation.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.7 s.110
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• pp.843-850
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• 2006

This is devoted to first, to propose a hash chain algorithm that generates more secure key than conventional encryption method. Secondly, we proposes encryption method that is more secure than conventional system using a encryption method that encrypts each block with each key generated by a hash chain algorithm. Thirdly, After identifying the user via wired and wireless network using a user authentication method. We propose a divided session key method so that Although a client key is disclosed, Attackers cannot catch a complete key and method to safely transfer the key using a divided key method. We make an experiment using various size of digital contents files for performance analysis after performing the design and implementation of system. Proposed system can distribute key securely than conventional system and encrypt data to prevent attacker from decrypting complete data although key may be disclosed. The encryption and decryption time that client system takes to replay video data fie is analogous to the conventional method.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.118-127
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• 2010

Inter-vehicle communication is one of the most important parts in Intelligent Vehicle System. Through this communication, drivers can recognize what is happening out of their sights, such as the freezing condition of the street, traffic accidents, and so on. Each car in IVS gives various services to the drivers after analyzing those received information from cars or a base station. If the message is, however, exchanged from car to car directly, the computation cost which is needed for all the car to authenticate the transmitted message between nearby cars is tremendously high. Therefore, one can naturally think that the message communication between cars is performed with the help of the base station to reduce the computation cost. In this case where the base station collects all the information transmitted from cars and broadcasts them nearby, there should be an efficient way both for the base station to authenticate the car message within its communication range and for the car to authenticate the information received from the base station. In this paper, we present a two-way authentication protocol using a hash chain to efficiently exchange GPS information between a car and a base station. This information can be used to provide a driver with the navigation which displays all the moving cars around him in real time. When a car goes into an area of a base station, the car authenticates itself to the base station using its private key of PKI, sends a commitment of a hash chain, then starts to send a message with the hash value for authentication. The message includes GPS information, driver's status and so on. The base station also authenticates itself to the nearby cars using its private key, transmits the commitment of the hash chain, and sends all the messages gathered from cars with authentication information.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.2063-2072
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• 2013

Smart Grid is the next-generation intelligent power grid that maximizes energy efficiency with the convergence of IT technologies and the existing power grid. It enables consumers to check power rates in real time for active power consumption. It also enables suppliers to measure their expected power generation load, which stabilizes the operation of the power system. However, there are high possibility that various kinds of security threats such as data exposure, data theft, and privacy invasion may occur in interactive communication with intelligent devices. Therefore, to establish a secure environment for responding to such security threat with the smart grid, the key management technique, which is the core of the development of a security mechanism, is required. Using a hash chain, this paper suggests a group key management mechanism that is efficiently applicable to the smart grid environment with its hierarchical structure, and analyzes the security and efficiency of the suggested group key management framework.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12B
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• pp.1407-1417
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• 2009

We propose a e-document management system that can provide segmented page information on a document according to different levels of authority from access control environment. The proposed system creates hierarchy identifier using a one-way hash chain and therefore does not need to own key information for all users as in existing system. Also by creating group keys by compounding hash chain hierarchy identifier with randomly formed group identifier, the system can flexibly respond to dynamic changes from group member movements while at the same time resolving the problems of key formation and management in document encoding technique using symmetric key for each page. Lastly as a result of comparative analysis through an experiment with existing e-document management systems, the proposed system showed superiority in the efficiency of encoding and decoding document and the speed of encoding and decoding by the pages.