• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.5-14
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• 2017

Many web services which use OAuth Protocol offer users to log in using their personal profile information given by resource servers. This method reduces the inconvenience of the users to register for new membership. However, at the time a user finishes using OAuth client web service, even if he logs out of the client web service, the resource server remained in the login state may cause the problem of leaking personal information. In this paper, we propose a solution to mitigate the threat by providing an additional security behavior check: when a user requests to log out of the Web Client service, he or she can make decision whether or not to log out of the resource server via confirmation notification regarding the state of the resource server. By utilizing the proposed method, users who log in through the OAuth Protocol in the public PC environment like department stores, libraries, printing companies, etc. can prevent the leakage of personal information issues that may arise from forgetting to check the other OAuth related services. To verify our study, we implement a Client Web Service that uses OAuth 2.0 protocol and integrate it with our security behavior check. The result shows that with this additional function, users will have a better security when dealing with resource authorization in OAuth 2.0 implementation.

• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.53-75
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• 2016

This article presents a descriptive analysis on national security policy platforms promoted by the ruling parties of South Korea during general and presidential elections. National security platforms made during the elections campaigns are a window that allows us to see how the ruling party perceives the threat environment, opportunity-structures, policy preferences and material capabilities faced by the state. South Korea presents a unique case since it faces constant military threats from North Korea and interacts with China and the United States. Therefore, the national security policy platforms, which are explicitly campaigned during the general and presidential elections, showcases the worldview of the ruling party. The study essentially focuses on three areas of the platforms - its threat perception on North Korea, the ROK-US alliance and the future vision for the Korean peninsula by covering two presidential elections and three general elections for the last 20 years.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.827-846
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• 2023

Recently, various information technologies such as network communication and sensors have begun to be integrated into weapon systems that were previously operated in stand-alone. This helps the operators of the weapon system to make quick and accurate decisions, thereby allowing for effective operation of the weapon system. However, as the involvement of the cyber domain in weapon systems increases, it is expected that the potential for damage from cyber attacks will also increase. To develop a secure weapon system, it is necessary to implement built-in security, which helps considering security from the requirement stage of the software development process. The U.S. Department of Defense is implementing the Risk Management Framework Assessment and Authorization (RMF A&A) process, along with the introduction of the concept of cybersecurity, for the evaluation and acquisition of weapon systems. Similarly, South Korea is also continuously making efforts to implement the Korea Risk Management Framework (K-RMF). However, so far, there are no cases where K-RMF has been applied from the development stage, and most of the data and documents related to the U.S. RMF A&A are not disclosed for confidentiality reasons. In this study, we propose the method for inferring the composition of the K-RMF based on systematic threat analysis method and the publicly released documents and data related to RMF. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our inferring method by applying it to the naval battleship system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.2928-2940
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• 2013

Key exposure is a major threat to secure cryptosystems. To mitigate the impact caused by key-compromise attacks, a key-insulated cryptographic mechanism is a better alternative. For securing the large message communication in peer-to-peer networks, in this paper, we propose the first novel identity-based key-insulated encryption (IB-KIE) scheme with message linkages. Our scheme has the properties of unbounded time periods and random-access key-updates. In the proposed scheme, each client can periodically update his private key while the corresponding public one remains unchanged. The essential security assumption of our proposed scheme is based on the well-known bilinear Diffie-Hellman problem (BDHP). To ensure the practical feasibility, we also formally prove that the proposed scheme achieves the security requirement of confidentiality against indistinguishability under adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks (IND-CCA2) in the random oracle model.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.7
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• pp.287-307
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• 2004

Mass killing and injuring by purpose, the countries that is hurrying countermeasure preparation of investigators who enforce that necessity to compare to intimidation of doing creature weapon is common concerns of the several countries including advanced nation such as the United States of America. Development and use of biological weapon have increased too recently to private citizens unlike development of military purpose in country dimension. The latest WHO is preparing proposal of standard stroke model who each department solidifies preparedness for chemical biological and electronic weapon revising report about biological weapon. But in case of korea, confrontation plan that bamboo broom about possibility of attack to the common people and attack comparing actual state in case of attained nothing but is readying remedy about biological warfare partially in military dimension was not readied. The purpose of this article is a study on threat of bio-weapons and the countermeasure.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.75-86
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• 2005

Recently, illegal manipulation and forgery threats on computer softwares are increasing due to the advances in reverse engineering techniques. Furthermore someone who has concerns about these area can crack the software by using the open-to-public simple tools on the internet. The software companies are struggling to defend their own softwares against threats, while the crackers are continuing to crack the softwares. In this paper, we first establish the generic software threat model and, analyze and experiment on the software cracks, before suggest a memory hacking prevention system in Microsoft Windows environment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1280-1300
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• 2020

In the modern financial sector, interest in providing financial services that employ blockchain technology has increased. Blockchain technology is efficient and can operate without a trusted party to store all transaction information; additionally, it provides transparency and prevents the tampering of transaction information. However, new security threats can occur because blockchain technology shares all the transaction information. Furthermore, studies have reported that the private keys of users who use the same signature value two or more times can be recovered. Because private keys of blockchain identify users, private key leaks can result in attackers stealing the ownership rights to users' property. Therefore, as more financial services use blockchain technology, actions to counteract the threat of private key recovery must be continually investigated. Private key recovery studies are presented here. Based on these studies, duplicated signatures generated by blockchain users are defined. Additionally, scenarios that generate and use duplicated signatures are applied in an actual bitcoin environment to demonstrate that actual bitcoin users' private keys can be recovered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.314-316
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• 2017

Ransomware, a malicious program that requires money and then locks computers and files on network users for financial harvesting, will continue to evolve. Ransomware is a threat in mail systems that send and receive business information. By using Block Chain, Distributed Ledger technology, it is designed to be a safe mail system in which the automatically generated Ramsomware symptom data is directly linked to the security policy in the enterprise.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.153-159
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• 2003

수많은 정보자산들이 네트워크를 통해 연결된 환경에서 사이버 공격으로부터 정보자산들을 효과적으로 방어하기 위한 기본적인 수단으로 네트워크 침입탐지 시스템과 취약점 분석 시스템이 활용되고 있다. 그러나 네트워크 보안을 위해 개별적으로 운용되고 있는 네트워크 침입탐지 시스템과 취약점 분석 시스템이 보안관리 측면에서 오히려 보안 운용자의 부담을 가중시키는 요인으로 작용하고 있는 것이 현실이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 네트워크 보안 관리에 필수적인 정보 요소인 네트워크 자산, 취약점 및 위협이 갖는 의미와 상관성을 분석하고, 네트워크 침입탐지 시스템과 취약점 분석 시스템이 제공하는 정보들을 상호 연동하여 네트워크 침입탐지 시스템이 탐지하는 불필요한 경보정보의 양을 대폭 줄여 Log관리를 최적화할 수 있는 시스템을 구축하기 위한 설계방법을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.1 no.1 s.1
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• pp.75-78
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• 2005

Although many tests for stabilization of the software have been done, vulnerability test for a system run by combination of the software of various products has not been conducted enough. This has led to increased threats and vulnerability of system. Especially, web-based software system, which is public, has inherent possibility of exposure to attacks and is likely to be seriously damaged by an accident. Consequently, comprehensive and systematic test plans and techniques are required. Moreover, it is necessary to establish a procedure for managing and handling the results of vulnerability test. This paper proposes vulnerability test plans and designs for implementing automated tools, both of which can be complied with on web-based software systems.