• 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.15C no.6
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• pp.439-446
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• 2008

Recently, the importance of EPCglobal Network and brisk researches on the RFID technologies and application have been increasing, also a number of industries including distribution and logistics are proposing various systems of the application. The Standard for EPCglobal Network, as now being in the process of its legislation, stipulates X.509 only for the method of encryption, without accurate specifications. This paper is, thus, to suggest the way of sending safely messages for the web-based service constituting EPCglobal Network, of verifying whether the received messages are effective, of encoding the messages for safer sending and of certifying between systems, and then to implement the way.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.6A
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• pp.63-73
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• 2008

RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) system is an automated identification system that basically consists of tags and readers and Back-End-Databases. Tags and Readers communicate with each other by RF signal. As a reader can identify many tags in contactless manner using RF signal, RFID system is expected to do a new technology to replace a bar-code system in supply-chain management and payment system and access control and medical record and so on. However, RFID system creates new threats to the security of systems and privacy of individuals, Because tags and readers communicate with each other in insecure channel using RF signal. So many people are trying to study various manners to solve these problems against attacks, But they are difficult to apply to RFID system based on EPCglobal UHF Class-1 Generation-2 tags. Recently, Chien and Chen proposed a mutual Authentication protocol for RFID conforming to EPCglobal UHF Class-1 Generation-2 tags. we discover vulnerabilities of security and inefficiency about their protocol. Therefore, We analyze vulnerabilities of their protocol and propose an efficient mutual authentication protocol that improves security and efficiency.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.2399-2403
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• 2011

Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) has been considered as an key infrastructure for the ubiquitous society. However, due to the inherent drawbacks, RFID causes var- ious security threats like privacy problems, tag cloning, etc. This paper analyses the security risk analysis process from the perspective of the RFID tag life cycle, identify the tag usage process, identify the associated vulnerability and threat to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information assets and its implications for privacy, and the mitigate the risks.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.42-50
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• 2009

Ubiquitous computing technology is widely used in not only our everyday lives but also in education, medical care, military, environment and administration. RFID system, the basis of ubiquitous, is in the spotlight which can be an alternative solution of a bar code recognition system and magnetic system as they basically have practicality and security issues. An electronic authentication named smart-key system is recently concerned by an alternative solution of the security unit for an automobile. RFID system which has a general purpose is also in the limelight by an application technology. In this paper we designed vehicle smart key system with general-propose RFID system that is already in use. First, we designed control unit and RFID card reader for vehicle smart key system. Then we propose an algorithm and prove that the vehicle key system is controllable by showing the result of implementing and testing, after installing. Also security level is enlarged by proposing a authentication protocol between RFID reader and control unit.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.137-141
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• 2014

RFID system is applied to various industry such as process control, distribution management, access control, environment sensing, entity identification, etc. Since RFID system uses wireless communication, it has more weak points for security. In this paper, an authentication protocol is suggested between tags and a reader, which is basic property for security. A suggested protocol use a bivariate polynomial over a finite field and is secure against snooping, replay attack, position tracking and traffic analysis.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.937-940
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• 2005

최근 정보통신부의 IT 839정책의 진행으로 RFID에 대한 관심이 국내 외적으로 높아지고 있다. RFID는 바코드를 대체하는 무선 인식 기술로써 물류 유통에 국한하지 않고, 금융, 의료, 교통, 제조, 문화 등 사회 전 반면에 응용할 수 있도록 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 하지만 RFID 시스템에서 태그와 리더기 사이의 통신은 Radio Frequency를 이용해서 이루어짐으로 공격자에 의해 도청될 수 있으며, 태그의 정보가 노출되면 사용자의 프라이버시 침해 문제를 가져올 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 태그의 가상 ID를 사용하여 출력을 매번 다르게 변화시키는 인증 프로토콜을 제안하여 사용자의 프라이버시를 제공하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06c
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• pp.301-303
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• 2006

RFID기술은 RF를 이용하여 자동적으로 사물의 정보를 획득할 수 있는 매우 편리한 기술이다. 하지만 악의적인 공격자에 의해 사물의 의도적으로 노출이 될 수 있는 문제를 지니고 있다. 이러한 RFID 시스템의 보안적 취약점을 보안하기 위해 많은 프로토콜들이 제안되었지만, 아직까지 완벽하게 보안성과 경제성을 모두 만족시키지 못하였고, 직관적인 방법에 의해 제안 프로토콜들을 검증하여 명확한 검증이 이뤄졌다고 할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 새로운 RFID 인증 프로토콜을 제안하고 직관적인 검증이 아닌 정형기법을 이용하여 프로토콜의 보안성을 검증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.2C
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• pp.140-156
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• 2012

Since most of recently launched smart devices support NFC(Near Field Communication), RFID applications are tend to be replaced. For instance, previous RFID application areas such as entrance control, mobile e-ticket, electronic payment and et. al are subject to change using NFC. Due to the limitation of passive communication in RFID, it is impossible to cover all security requirements of authentication and authorization mechanism that wide areas of applications demand. Therefore authentication and authorization mechanism based on NFC is very attractive to such applications because active communication methods make it possible to be highly secure in authentication and authorization. In this paper, authors propose a new approach of secure authentication and authorization mechanism using NFC smart devices based on EAP(Extensible Authentication Protocol) and AAA(Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) protocols.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.71-82
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• 2011

The RFID system provides undeniable advantages so that it is used for various application. However recent RFID system is vulnerable to some attacks as eavesdropping, replay attack, message hijacking, and tag tampering, because the messages are transmitted through the wireless channel and the tags are cheap. Above attacks cause the tag and reader impersonation, denial of service by invalidating tag, and the location tracking concerning bearer of tags, A lot of RFID authentication protocol bas been proposed to solve the vulnerability. Since Weis, Sanna, Rivest, and Engel, proposed the bash-based RFID authentication protocol, many researchers have improved hash-based authentication protocol and recent bash-based authentication protocols provide security and desirable privacy. However, it remains open problem to reduce the tag identification time as long as privacy and security are still guaranteed. Here we propose a new protocol in which the tags generate the message depending on the state of previous communitions between tag and reader. In consequence, our protocol allows a server to identify a tag in a reasonable amount of time while ensuring security and privacy, To be specific, we reduced the time for the server to identify a tag when the last session finished abnormally by at least 50% compared with other bash-based schemes that ensure levels of security and privacy similar to ours.