• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.35-41
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• 2017

This paper introduces a new method for storing a private key. This method can be achieved by dividing the private key into "n" pieces by a (k, n) secret sharing method, and then storing each piece into photo files utilizing a steganography method. In this way, a user can restore a private key as long as he can remember the locations of "k" photos among the entire photo files. Attackers, meanwhile, will find it extremely difficult to extract the private key if a user has hidden the pieces of the private key into numerous photo files stored in the system. It also provides a high degree of user convenience, as the user can restore the private key from his memory of k positions among n photo files. Coupled with this, a certain level of security can be guaranteed because the attacker cannot restore a private key, even if he knows k-1 photo file locations.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.55-64
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• 2012

Nowadays, as Cloud computing becomes popular, a need for a DFS(distributed file system) is increased. But, in the current Cloud computing environments, there is no DFS framework that is sufficient to protect sensitive private information from attackers. Therefore, we designed and proposed a secure scheme for distributed file systems. The scheme provides confidentiality and availability for a distributed file system using a secret sharing method. In this paper, we measured the speed of encryption and decryption for our proposed method, and compared them with that of SEED algorithm which is the most popular algorithm in this field. This comparison showed the computational efficiency of our method. Moreover, the proposed secure read/write model is independent of Hadoop DFS structure so that our modified algorithm can be easily adapted for use in the HDFS. Finally, the proposed model is evaluated theoretically using performance measurement method for distributed secret sharing model.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.4
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• pp.341-348
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• 2007

Even though the secret information stored in home device in home network must be handled very safely and carefully, we have no measure for protecting the secret information without additional hardware support. Since already many home devices without consideration of the security have been used, the security protection method for those devices have to be required. In this paper, we suggest two schemes that protect the security information using networking function without additional hardware support, and those hybrid method to supplement the defects of each scheme. We also consider the our proposals in the aspects of security and cost.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.769-771
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• 2002

임계 암호시스템은 현대 암호학에서 중요한 한 축을 이루는 암호학의 한 분야이다. 본 논문에서는 임계 암호시스템의 근간이 되는 비밀 분산(Secret Sharing)의 한 분야인 (k, n) threshold scheme에서 능동적 비밀 분산 (Proactive Secret Sharing)을 위한 공유(Share)갱신 방법을 개선한 새로운 공유 갱신 방법을 제안한다. 이전 방법은 각 참여자당 O(n$^2$)의 모듈라 멱승 연산을 수행하는데 비하여 제안 방법은 O(n)의 모듈라 멱승 연산만으로 공유갱신이 가능하다. 이와 함께 본 논문에서는 k ＜(1/2)n-1인 경우에 대하여 제안 방법의 안전함을 증명한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.3401-3420
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• 2018

Pixel expansion and contrast are two major performance parameters for visual cryptography scheme (VCS), which is a type of secret image sharing. Random Grid (RG) is an alternative approach to solve the pixel expansion problem. Chen and Tsao proposed the first (k, n) RG-based VCS, and then Guo et al., Wu et al., Shyu, and Yan et al. significantly improved the contrast in recent years. However, the investigations on improving the contrast of threshold RG-based VCS are not sufficient. In this paper, we develop a contrast-improved algorithm for (k, n) RG-based VCS. Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperformers the previous threshold algorithms with better visual quality and a higher accuracy of contrast.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.313-315
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• 2004

인터넷과 같은 항상 변화하고 있는 거대한 네트워크에서는 안전한 전자거래를 위해 않은 키들과 메시지 확장 없이 그룹의 구성원이 다른 구성원이나 그룹에게 전해진 메시지 인증이 보장되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위한 효율적인 그룹 서명 기법인 그룹의 공개키 수정없이 그리고 나머지 구성원들이 새로운 인증을 요구하지 않는 인증방법으로, 항상 변화하는 인터넷에서 신뢰기관인 중앙 인증기관이 없는 쓰레시홀드 크립토그래피(Threshold Cryptography)를 가진 비잔틴 어그리먼트 프로토콜(Byzantine Agreement Protocol)을 제안한다 아울러 쓰레시홀드 크립토그래피는 키 관리 문제를 피하고 키 분산을 하기 위해 신뢰된 분배자 없이 호모모르픽 시크리트 쉐어링의 Proactive AVSS(Asynchronous Verifiable Secret Sharing)를 제시한다.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.177-186
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• 2020

In current public blockchain, any node can see every blocks, so that public blockchain provider transparent property. However, some application requires the confidential information to be stored in the block. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-layer blockchain that have the public block layer and the private block for confidential information. This paper suggests the requirement for encryption of private block. Also, this paper shows the t-of-n threshold cryptosystem without dealer who is trusted third party. Moreover, the delegated node who has key information can be withdraw the delegated node group or a new delegated node can join in the delegated node group. Therefore, the paper proposes an efficient key information resharing scheme for withdraw and join. Finally proposed scheme satisfies the requirements for encryption and fairness.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.121-134
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• 2005

The MANET has many problems in security despite of its many advantages such as supporting the mobility of nodes, independence of the fixed infrastructure, and quick network establishment. In particular, in establishing security, the traditional certification service has many difficult problems in applying to the MANET because of its safety, expandability, and availability. In this paper, a secure and effective distributed certification service method was proposed using the Secret Sharing scheme and the Threshold Digital Signature scheme in providing certification services in the MANET. In the proposed distributed certification service, certain nodes of relatively high safety among the mobile nodes consisting of the MANET, were set as privileged nodes, from which the process of issuing a certification started. The proposed scheme solved problem that the whole network security would be damaged by the intrusion to one node in the Centralized Architecture and the Hierarchical Architecture. And it decreased the risk of the exposure of the personal keys also in the Fully Distributed Architecture as the number of the nodes containing the partial confidential information of personal keys decreased. By the network simulation, the features and availability of the proposed scheme was evaluated and the relation between the system parameters was analyzed.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.24-29
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• 2009

Sahai and Waters first introduced the concept of Fuzzy Identity Based Encryption (FIBE) to provide an error-tolerance property for Identity Based Encryption (IBE) in 2005. Yang et al. extended this idea and introduced the concept of Fuzzy Identity Based Signature (FIBS) in 2008, and constructed a FIBS scheme based on Sahai and Waters's FIBE scheme. In this paper, we further formalize the notion and security model of FIBS scheme and propose a new construction of FIBS scheme based on bilinear pairing. The proposed FIBS scheme not only provide shorter public parameters, private key and signature, but also have useful structures which result in more efficient key extraction, signing and verification than that of Yang et al.'s FIBS scheme.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.311-319
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• 2017

Recently invasion of privacy problem in medical information have been issued following the interest in secondary use of large medical information. These large medical information is very useful information that can be used in various fields such as disease research and prevention. However, due to the privacy laws such as Privacy Act and Medical Law, these informations including patients or health professionals' personal information are difficult to utilize secondary. Accordingly, various methods such as k-anonymity, l-diversity and differential-privacy that can be utilized while protecting privacy have been developed and utilized in this field. In this paper, we study differential privacy processing procedure, one of various methods, and find out about the differential privacy problem using Laplace noise. Finally, we propose a new method using the Shamir's secret sharing method and symemetric key encryption algorithm such as AES for this problem.