• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1051-1077
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• 2021

The secure communication of information is a major concern over the internet. The information must be protected before transmitting over a communication channel to avoid security violations. In this paper, a new hybrid method called compressed encrypted data embedding (CEDE) is proposed. In CEDE, the secret information is first compressed with Lempel Ziv Welch (LZW) compression algorithm. Then, the compressed secret information is encrypted using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric block cipher. In the last step, the encrypted information is embedded into an image of size 512 × 512 pixels by using image steganography. In the steganographic technique, the compressed and encrypted secret data bits are divided into pairs of two bits and pixels of the cover image are also arranged in four pairs. The four pairs of secret data are compared with the respective four pairs of each cover pixel which leads to sixteen possibilities of matching in between secret data pairs and pairs of cover pixels. The least significant bits (LSBs) of current and imminent pixels are modified according to the matching case number. The proposed technique provides double-folded security and the results show that stego image carries a high capacity of secret data with adequate peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and lower mean square error (MSE) when compared with existing methods in the literature.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.2919-2937
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• 2020

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is rapidly developing as a stable and reliable quantum-resistant form of cryptography, throughout the industry. Similarly to existing cryptography, however, it does not prevent a third-party from using the secret key when third party obtains the secret key by deception, unauthorized sharing, or unauthorized proxying. The most effective alternative to preventing such illegal use is the utilization of biometrics during the generation of the secret key. In this paper, we propose a biometric-based secret key generation scheme for multivariate quadratic signature schemes, such as Rainbow. This prevents the secret key from being used by an unauthorized third party through biometric recognition. It also generates a shorter secret key by applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based Confidence Interval Analysis (CIA) as a feature extraction method. This scheme's optimized implementation performed well at high speeds.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.655-658
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• 2012

최근 Gu와 Xue는 Huang와 Cao에 의해 제안되었던 기법을 수정하여 개선된 secret hankshake 기법을 제안하였다. Gu와 Xue의 기법은 Huang와 Cao의 기법이 가지고 있던 취약성을 개선하면서 기존의 기법들에 비해 효율적이라는 장점도 동시에 제공하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 Gu와 Xue에 의해 고려되었던 안전성 요구사항들을 살펴보고 공격자에 대한 정의가 현실적으로 제한되었음을 보인다. 현실성에 맞게 수정된 공격자 모델에서는 Gu와 Xue의 기법이 안전하지 않음을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.471-485
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• 2023

As data sharing increases explosively, such information encoded in QR code is completely public as private messages are not securely protected. This paper proposes a new 'PROMISE' framework for hiding information based on the QR code projection matrix by using image segmentation without modifying the essential QR code characteristics. Projection matrix mapping, matrix scrambling, fusion image segmentation and steganography with SEL(secret embedding logic) are part of the PROMISE framework. The QR code could be mapped to determine the segmentation site of the fusion image as a binary information matrix. To further protect the site information, matrix scrambling could be adopted after the mapping phase. Image segmentation is then performed on the fusion image and the SEL module is applied to embed the secret message into the fusion image. Matrix transformation and SEL parameters should be uploaded to the server as the secret key for authorized users to decode the private message. And it was possible to further obtain the private message hidden by the framework we proposed. Experimental findings show that when compared to some traditional information hiding methods, better anti-detection performance, greater secret key space and lower complexity could be obtained in our work.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2006

화상을 이용한 심층암호는 화상에 숨긴 비밀 메시지를 전송하기 위한 비밀 통신의 한 방법이다. 디지털 화상에 비밀 메시지를 은닉시키기 위해서 엄폐화상은 은닉 알고리즘에 의해 변경이 되며, 그 결과 은닉화상이 생성된다. 송신자는 의미 없는 일반적인 엄폐화상에 비밀 메시지를 숨긴 은닉화상을 수신자에게 전송한다. 본 논문에서는 화상의 연속 두 화소간의 차분과 비밀 양자화 범위를 이용하여 비밀 메시지를 은닉하는 공간 영역 기반의 심층암호 기법을 제안한다. 특히, 제안 방식은 삽입용량을 증가시키기 위해 모듈러 연산을 이용한다. 제안 방식은 모듈러 연산을 수행함으로써 기존의 관련 방식[6]보다 비밀 메시지의 삽입용량을 평균 60% 정도 더 증가시킬 수 있었다.

• 한국정보보호학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보보호학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.765-773
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• 2006

In ubiquitous environment, private enterprise or public institution's privacy data are sometimes exposed to hackers because of the lack of the sense of information security. We apply secret sharing scheme to solve the privacy problems. But, the existing secret sharing scheme are not suitable for the management of large a quantity of data because that required operation of large capacity. In this paper, We propose new secret sharing scheme for privacy data management. Our scheme makes high-speed operation possible, and it also allows for set weight for each secret pieces depending on weight of participants. The scheme proposed in this paper makes it efficient to collect and manage secure privacy data in ubiquitous environment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.3911-3925
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• 2018

This paper proposes a novel steganography method to hide secret data during the generation of tangle patterns. Different from the traditional steganography based on modifying natural images, we propose to construct stego images according to the secret messages. We first create a model to group a selected image contour, and define some basic operations to generate various pattern cells. During data hiding, we create a cell library to establish the relationships between cells and secret data. By painting the cell inside the image contour, we create a dense tangle pattern to carry secret data. With the proposed method, a recipient can extract the secret data correctly. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a flexible embedding capacity. The constructed stego tangle image has good visual effects, and is secure against adversaries. Meanwhile, the stego tangle pattern is also robust to JPEG compression.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.2913-2927
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• 2013

A data hiding scheme in HTML files is presented in this paper. Web pages are a very popular medium for broadcasting information and knowledge nowadays, and web pages are a good way to achieve the goal of secret message delivery because the different HTML coding codes will render the same screen in any of the popular browsers. The proposed method utilizes the HTML special space codes and sentence segmentation to conceal secret messages into a HTML file. The experimental results show that the stego HTML file generated by the proposed method is imperceptible. Also, the proposed method can conceal one more secret bit in every between-word location.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.841-844
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• 2007

홈 네트워크에서 요구되는 보안 서비스는 홈의 정의에 따라 달라질 수 있다. 그리고 댁내에 어떠한 홈 네트워크 기술들이 포함될 것인가에 따라 달라진다. 홈 네트워크에서는 다양한 디바이스들이 네트워크에 연결되어 있다. 이러한 홈 디바이스들은 외부의 공격으로부터 안전하지 않은 환경에 존재하게 된다. 따라서 홈 디바이스 내에 저장되어 있는 비밀정보를 보호하기 위한 요소들이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 안전한 홈 네트워크 서비스를 제공하기 위해 필요한 홈 디바이스 내의 비밀정보를 보호하기 위한 시스템을 설계하고자 한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.913-921
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• 2004

데이터 은닉(data hiding)의 한 분야인 심층암호(steganography)는 제3자가 기밀정보의 삽입여부를 인지하지 못하도록 디지털화된 각종 미디어에 몰래 숨겨서 송/수신자간에 비밀통신을 할 수 있는 방법이다. 그러나 흑백으로만 구성되는 스캔된 텍스트 화상나 카툰 화상 등에 시각적으로 인지되지 않도록 기밀정보를 숨기는 것은 쉽지 않다. 본 논문에서는 이진 카툰 화상을 크기의 블록으로 분할한 후, 그 블록의 가운데 픽셀을 둘러싼 8-이웃 픽셀의 연속 길이를 이용하여 기밀 데이터를 숨기는 방식을 제안한다. 제안 방식은 어떤 조건에서는 가운데 픽셀에도 데이터를 은닉시켜 기밀정보의 삽입량을 증가시킬 수 있음을 보인다.