• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.11 s.353
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• pp.54-67
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• 2006

Low Rate WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) designed for low power and low cost wireless communication is an important technology to realize ubiquitous environment. IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Alliance recommend the SKKE (Symmetric-Key Key Establishment) protocol for key establishment and management. The SKKE algorithm has security weakness such as the absence of authentication process or electric signature in key generation and exchange when devices join the role of coordinators. In this paper, we propose new key establishment and security algorithm based on public key encryption to solve low rate WPAN security problems. Also, to improve PLC AMR system's weaknesses in communication reliability and security, we propose a new AMR system model based on IEEE 802.15.4 and we apply our security algorithm to AMR profile for security enhancement.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.941-944
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 인터넷을 통해 다양한 컨테츠 서비스를 사용자가 편리하게 이용할 수 있도록 EAP-TLS 인증 방식과 SKKE(Symmetric-Key Key Establishment)방식을 이용하여 보다 효율적인 인증 메커니즘을 설계하였다. 제안하고 있는 메커니즘에서는 사용자가 인증서 방식을 통해 AS(AAA Server)로부터 인증을 받으면 AS 와 가맹 관계에 있는 CP(Contents Provider)에는 별도의 로그인 과정없이 서비스를 이용할 수 있는 SSO 서비스, 사용자 익명성, 프라이버시를 제공한다. 사용자가 익명성을 필요로 하는 컨텐츠 서비스를 이용할 경우 사용자의 익명성을 보장 해주고 AS 모르게 사용자와 CP 가 안전하게 서비스를 전송하기 위해 사용 할 세션키를 교환하고 CP 마다 다른 세션키를 사용함으로써 사용자의 프라이버시를 보장해 준다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.10 s.352
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• pp.35-45
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• 2006

Coordinator is defining so that function as most trust center that is point in security in ZigBee Alliance. Because must do height connection with coordinator in device signing to PAN newly, coordinator has shortcoming that subordinate is revealed to danger directly to Centered and cattish device. When do height connection some device, do not become problem, but if network is huge, coordinator's subordinate shall increase as traffic quantity which happen in coordinator increases. Also, in ZigBee security to link network kina of transmission and mutually certification in ZigBee Alliance standard include, but I do not provide method to deliver master key in each node safely. Because process that transmit master key passes through channel that do not secure, master key has shortcoming that is revealed directly. In this paper, I suggested Parent-Child key establishment algorithm to solve these problem. Proposed algorithm consists of two structures. Master key establishment algorithm and device that sign to PAN newly that can use one-way Hash chain and transmit master key safety are consisted of Parent-Child network key establishment algorithm that do child node and parent node key establishment as can do key establishment efficiently. Method that device proposes in case method that propose in case have master key establishment time was shown better performance $200{\sim}1300ms$ than existing method, and device does not have master key than existing method height connect time about $400{\sim}500ms$ better performance see.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.63-72
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new authentication protocol for the LR-WPAN. In order to guarantee the reliability and safety of a protocol, this protocol uses the hierarchical authentication approach. In addition, in order to reduce the impact of the denial of service attack, the proposed protocol performs the authentication between a parent router and a joiner device prior to the authentication between a trust center and the joiner device. Moreover, this protocol reduces the authentication delay by decreasing the number of message exchanges during authentication procedure. This paper evaluates the safety of the proposed protocol by the security analysis and reliability of the proposed protocol by the GNY analysis. This paper also compares the number of message exchanges of the ZigBee authentication protocol and the proposed protocol when denial of service attack occurs to evaluate the resistance of the proposed protocol against the denial of service attack. We also analyze the delay for authentication of the joiner device through the implementation of both protocols. Those results show that the proposed protocol effectively protects networks from the denial of service attack and reduces the time for authenticating the joiner device up to maximum 30% as the number of hops increases.