• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.869-879
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• 2023

Sparkle is one of the finalists in the Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process conducted by NIST. It is a nonlinear permutation and serves as a core component for the authenticated encryption algorithm Schwaemm and the hash function Esch. In this paper, we provide specific forms of input and output differences for 6 rounds of Sparkle384 and 7 rounds of Sparkle512, and make formulas for the complexity of finding input pairs that satisfy these differentials. Due to the significantly lower complexity compared to similar tasks for random permutations with the same input and output sizes, they can be valid distinguishing attacks. The numbers(6 and 7) of attacked rounds are very close to the minimum numbers(7 and 8) of really used rounds.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.401-410
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose optimization methods for implementing SPARKLE, one of the NIST LWC finalists, on a 64-bit ARMv8 processor. The proposed methods consist of two approaches: an implementation using ARM A64 instructions and another using NEON ASIMD instructions. The A64-based implementation is optimized by performing register scheduling to efficiently utilize the available registers on the ARMv8 architecture. By utilizing the optimized A64-based implementation, we can achieve speeds that are 1.69 to 1.81 times faster than the C reference implementation on a Raspberry Pi 4B. The ASIMD-based implementation, on the other hand, optimizes data by parallelizing the ARX-boxes to perform more than three of them concurrently through a single vector instruction. While the general speed of the optimized ASIMD-based implementation is lower than that of the A64-based implementation, it only slows down by 1.2 times compared to the 2.1 times slowdown observed in the A64-based implementation as the block size increases from SPARKLE256 to SPARKLE512. This is an advantage of the ASIMD-based implementation. Therefore, the ASIMD-based implementation is more efficient for SPARKLE variant block cipher or permutation designs with larger block sizes than the original SPARKLE, making it a useful resource.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.453-460
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• 2022

As high-performance quantum computers are expected to be developed, studies are being actively conducted to build a post-quantum security system that is safe from potential quantum computer attacks. When the Grover's algorithm, a representative quantum algorithm, is used to search for a secret key in a symmetric key cryptography, there may be a safety problem in that the security strength of the cipher is reduced to the square root. NIST presents the post-quantum security strength estimated based on the cost of the Grover's algorithm required for an attack of the cryptographic algorithm as a post-quantum security requirement for symmetric key cryptography. The estimated cost of Grover's algorithm for the attack of symmetric key cryptography is determined by the quantum circuit complexity of the corresponding encryption algorithm. In this paper, the quantum circuit of the SCHWAEMM algorithm, AEAD family of SPARKLE, which was a finalist in NIST's lightweight cryptography competition, is efficiently implemented, and the quantum cost to apply the Grover's algorithm is analyzed. At this time, the cost according to the CDKM ripple-carry adder and the unbounded Fan-Out adder is compared together. Finally, we evaluate the post-quantum security strength of the lightweight cryptography SPARKLE SCHWAEMM algorithm based on the analyzed cost and NIST's post-quantum security requirements. A quantum programming tool, ProjectQ, is used to implement the quantum circuit and analyze its cost.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.183-186
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• 2022

고성능 양자 컴퓨터가 개발될 것으로 기대됨에 따라 잠재적인 양자 컴퓨터의 공격으로부터 안전한 양자 후 보안 시스템을 구축하기 위한 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 대표적인 양자 알고리즘인 Grover 알고리즘이 대칭키 암호에 적용될 경우 보안 강도가 제곱근으로 감소되는 보안 훼손이 발생한다. NIST는 대칭키 암호에 대한 양자 후 보안 요구사항으로, 암호 알고리즘 공격에 요구되는 Grover 알고리즘 비용을 기준을 기준으로 양자 후 보안 강도를 추정하고 있다. 대칭키 암호를 공격하기 위한 Grover 알고리즘의 비용은 대상 암호화 알고리즘의 양자 회로 복잡도에 따라 결정된다. 본 논문에서는 NIST 경량암호 공모전 최종 후보에 오른 Sparkle 알고리즘의 양자 회로를 효율적으로 구현하고 Grover 알고리즘을 적용하기 위한 양자 비용에 대해 분석한다. 마지막으로, NIST 양자 후 보안 요구사항과 분석한 비용을 기반으로 경량암호 Sparkle에 대한 양자 후 보안 강도를 평가한다. 양자 회로 구현 및 비용 분석에는 양자 프로그래밍 툴인 ProjectQ가 사용되었다.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.19-28
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• 2019

An efficient shoot regeneration condition for pea cv. 'Sparkle' was developed by using optimum explant, plant growth regulator concentrations, and pretreatment of BA onto explant. The average shoot number per explant showed the highest on two kinds of shoot induction media (MSB5 media containing 2 mg/L BA and a combination of 2 mg/L BA and 1 mg/L TDZ) when cotyledonary node explants were cultured. Moreover, the pretreatment of explant in 200 mg/L BA solution was found to be more effective in shoot induction than that of non-pretreatment. By histological study, cell division and proto-meristem were formed near the surface of the sub-epidermal and epidermal cell layers of cotyledonary node in earlier than 3 days after culture. The analysis of genetic stability of regenerants by using thirteen ISSR markers showed that in vitro regenerated plants showed polymorphism with 8.3% compared with their mother plants.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.744-747
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• 2005

The exploitable efficiency of UHP is very important in a projection system. We always use lens array for light shaping and energy distribution transformation in conventional projection system. Because of the limitation of arc gap and F/# of elements, the utilize efficiency is always dismal. In this paper we try to bring out a new method to reduce the sparkle formed on the PS converter and enhance the system efficiency.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.68-72
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• 1990

Little is known about the regulation of IAA level in plants under low temperature. On exposing 6-day-old etiolated pea(Pisum sativum L. var. Sparkle) seedlings grown at $25^{\circ}$ to $5^{\circ}$ for 3 days, free IAA level decreased from 17.6 to 4.9 ng/g fresh weight(that is, from 68 to 10 pmol/shoot) and total IAA level from 113.2 to 60.8 ng/g FW. The level of free tryptophan, precusor of IAA, also decreased from 583 to 414 nmol/g FW and that of free phenylalanine and tyrosine, products of shikimic acid pathway along with tryptophan, decreased from 3,168 to 2,327 nmol/g FW. Thus low temperature was found to down-regulate the level of endogenous IAA, in part, by reducing tryptophan biosynthesis in etiolated pea shoots.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.125-128
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• 1990

Previous work has shown that the levels of free and total IAA and tryptophan decrease on exposing etiolated pea (Pisum sativum L. var. Sparkle) seedlings grown at $25^{\circ}C$ to $5^{\circ}C$ for 3 days, suggesting that low temperature down-regulates the level of endogenous IAA, in part, by reducing tryptophan biosynthesis. To understand, in this study, the effect of low temperature on the regulation of IAA degradation system in etiolated pea seedlings, enzyme levels of IAA degradation system and hydrogen peroxide content were analyzed during and after chilling($5^{\circ}C$) 6-day-old pea seedlings grown at $25^{\circ}C$. The levels of IAA oxidase and peroxidase increased during chilling and gradually restored to the level of control on termination of chilling. Catalase levels decreased upon chilling and increased to the level of control on termination of chilling. $H_2O_2$ was accumulated during chilling up to the level of $5.5\;{\mu}mol/g$ fresh weight while at $25^{\circ}C$ maintained a relatively constant $H_2O_2$ level of $4\;{\mu}mol/g$ FW. All together, it appears that low temperature, in part, by increasing enzyme levels of IAA degradation system and accumulating $H_2O_2$, down-regulates endogenous level of IAA in etiolated pea shoots.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.132-136
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• 1983

The indole-3-acetic acid(IAA) oxidase activity of shoot and root tips of etiolated pea seedlings (Pisum sativum L. var. Sparkle) during and after chilling was determined. The IAA oxidase level of root tips was 4 to 15 times as high as that of shoot tips. During chilling the seedlings apical and subapical 5 mm shoot sections increased in IAA oxidase activity but apical and subapical 5 mm root sections decreased. When chilled plants were returned to $25^{\circ}C$ to recover, the enzyme activity had a tendency to restore to the activity level of controlled plants.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.43-51
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• 1985

To identify amino acid conjugates of indole-3-acetic acid(IAA) in plants, 23 amino acid conjugates of IAA were synthesized and characterized by UV and IR spectroscopies, and thinlayer and high performance liquid chromatographies. In etiolated pea(Pisum sativum L. var. Sparkle) shoots, aspartic and glutamic acid conjugates of IAA were tentatively identified as metabolites of endogenous IAA by thin-layer and high performance liquid chromatography, and by alkaline hydrolysis of the conjugates.