• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.74-96
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• 2023

At present, the smart grid has become one of the indispensable infrastructures in people's lives. As a commonly used communication method, wireless communication is gradually, being widely used in smart grid systems due to its convenient deployment and wide range of serious challenges to security. For the insecurity of the schemes based on large integer factorization and discrete logarithm problem in the quantum environment, an identity-based key management scheme for smart grid over lattice is proposed. To assure the communication security, through constructing intra-cluster and inter-cluster multi-hop routing secure mechanism. The time parameter and identity information are introduced in the relying phase. Through using the symmetric cryptography algorithm to encrypt improve communication efficiency. Through output the authentication information with probability, the protocol makes the private key of the certification body no relation with the distribution of authentication information. Theoretic studies and figures show that the efficiency of keys can be authenticated, so the number of attacks, including masquerade, reply and message manipulation attacks can be resisted. The new scheme can not only increase the security, but also decrease the communication energy consumption.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.2427-2445
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• 2016

In contrast to traditional "store-and-forward" routing mechanisms, network coding offers an elegant solution for achieving maximum network throughput. The core idea is that intermediate network nodes linearly combine received data packets so that the destination nodes can decode original files from some authenticated packets. Although network coding has many advantages, especially in wireless sensor network and peer-to-peer network, the encoding mechanism of intermediate nodes also results in some additional security issues. For a powerful adversary who can control arbitrary number of malicious network nodes and can eavesdrop on the entire network, cryptographic signature schemes provide undeniable authentication mechanisms for network nodes. However, with the development of quantum technologies, some existing network coding signature schemes based on some traditional number-theoretic primitives vulnerable to quantum cryptanalysis. In this paper we first present an efficient network coding signature scheme in the standard model using lattice theory, which can be viewed as the most promising tool for designing post-quantum cryptographic protocols. In the security proof, we propose a new method for generating a random lattice and the corresponding trapdoor, which may be used in other cryptographic protocols. Our scheme has many advantages, such as supporting multi-source networks, low computational complexity and low communication overhead.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.7
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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.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.101-106
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• 2021

Quantum algorithms and quantum computers can break the security of many of the ciphers we currently use. If Grover's algorithm is applied to a symmetric key cipher with n-bit security level, the security level can be lowered to (n/2)-bit. In order to apply Grover's algorithm, it is most important to optimize the target cipher as a quantum circuit because the symmetric key cipher must be implemented as a quantum circuit in the oracle function. Accordingly, researches on implementing AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) or lightweight block ciphers as quantum circuits have been actively conducted in recent years. In this paper, korean lightweight block cipher LEA was optimized and implemented as a quantum circuit. Compared to the previous LEA quantum circuit implementation, quantum gates were used more, but qubits were drastically reduced, and performance evaluation was performed for this tradeoff problem. Finally, we evaluated quantum resources for applying Grover's algorithm to the proposed LEA implementation.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.17 no.6 s.78
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• pp.146-154
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• 2002

본 고에서는 최근 IT-NT 융합 기술 중 각광받고 있는 양자 정보통신 기술의 기초 이론 및 최신 동향 그리고, 실제적인 시스템 구현을 위한 구성 요소들을 살펴보고자 한다. 양자정보통신 기술은 광자(光子)의 양자역학적 특성에 기반을 둔 기술로서 양자 이론과 밀접한 관련을 가진 기술 분야이다. 일반적으로 양자정보처리 기술은 크게 양자 컴퓨터(quantum computer)와 양자 암호화(quantum cryptography) 기술, 양자 통신(quantum communication) 등으로 구분된다. 양자정보통신의 각 분야 기술이 아직은 기초연구 수준에 있지만 세계적으로 그 중요성을 인식하고 대규모 투자를 아끼지 않는 분야이기 때문에, 이 분야에 대한 투자를 소홀히 하면 기술 종속 또는 기술 후진국으로 전락할 수도 있다. 그러므로, 본 고에서는 외국의 기술 발전 추세에 대처하고 자체적인 관련 기반 기술을 확보하기 위한 기초 이론과 기술 동향에 대해 간략히 살펴보기로 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.481-496
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• 2021

It is imperative to migrate the current public key cryptosystem to a quantum-resistance system ahead of the realization of large-scale quantum computing technology. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, is promoting a public standardization project for Post-Quantum Cryptography(PQC) and also many research efforts have been conducted to apply PQC to TLS(Transport Layer Security) protocols, which are used for Internet communication security. In this paper, we propose a scenario in which a server and multi-clients share session keys on TLS by using the parallelized NTRU which is PQC in the key exchange process. In addition, we propose a method of accelerating NTRU using GPU and analyze its efficiency in an environment where a server needs to process large-scale data simultaneously.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.479-488
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• 2016

For a secure communication system, it is necessary to use secure cryptographic algorithms and keys. Modern cryptographic system generates high entropy encryption key through standard key derivation functions. Using recent progress in quantum key distribution(QKD) based on quantum physics, it is expected that we can enhance the security of modern cryptosystem. In this respect, the study on the dual key agreement is required, which combines quantum and modern cryptography. In this paper, we propose two key derivation functions using dual key agreement based on QKD and RSA cryptographic system. Furthermore, we demonstrate several simulations that estimate entropy of derived key so as to support the design rationale of our key derivation functions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.347-348
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• 2013

To obtain high conversion efficiency in InGaN-based solar cells, it is critical to grow high indium (In) composed InGaN layer for increasing sun light absorption wavelength rage. At present, most InGaN-based solar cells adopt InGaN/GaN multi-quantum-well (MQW) structure for high crystalline quality of InGaN with high In composition. In this study, we fabricated and compared the performances of two types of InGaN/GaN MQW solar cells which have the 15% (SC 15) and 25% (SC 25) of In composition at quantum well layer. Although both devices showed similar dark current density and leakage current, SC 15 showed better performance under AM 1.5G illumination as shown in Fig. 1. It is interesting to note that SC 25 showed severe current density decrease as increasing voltages. As a result, it lowered short circuit current density and fill factor of the device. However, SC 15 showed steady current density and over 75 % of fill factor. To investigate these differencesmore clearly, we analyzed their photoluminescence (PL) spectra under various applied voltages as shown in Fig. 2. At the same time, photocurrent, which was generated by PL excitation, was also measured as shown in Fig. 3. Further, we investigated the relationship between piezoelectric field and performance of InGaN based solar cell varying indium composition.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.3256-3274
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• 2022

With the rapid development of information and communications technology, the construction of efficient, reliable, and safe Internet of Things (IoT) is an inevitable trend in order to meet high-quality demands for the forthcoming 6G communications. In this paper, we study a secure intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted IoT system where malicious eavesdropper trying to sniff out the desired information from the transmission links between the IRS and legitimate IoT devices. We discuss the system overall performance and propose a hybrid resource allocation scheme for maximizing the secrecy capacity and secrecy energy efficiency. In order to achieve the trade-off between transmission reliability, communication security, and energy efficiency, we develop a quantum-inspired marine predator algorithm (QMPA) for realizing rational configuration of system resources and prevent from eavesdropping. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the QMPA over other strategies. It is also indicated that proper IRS deployment and power allocation are beneficial for the enhancement of system overall capacity.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1083-1097
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• 2018

This paper presents a novel range-free localization algorithm based on quantum particle swarm optimization. The proposed algorithm is capable of estimating the distance between two non-neighboring sensors for multi-hop heterogeneous wireless sensor networks where all nodes' communication ranges are different. Firstly, we construct a new cumulative distribution function of expected hop progress for sensor nodes with different transmission capability. Then, the distance between any two nodes can be computed accurately and effectively by deriving the mathematical expectation of cumulative distribution function. Finally, quantum particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to improve the positioning accuracy. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior in the localization accuracy and efficiency when used in random and uniform placement of nodes for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks.