• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.221-236
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• 2022

BLE protocol prevents MITM attacks with user interaction through some input/output devices such as keyboard or display. Therefore, If it use a device which has no input/output facility, it can be vulnerable to MITM attack. If messages to be sent to a control device is forged by MITM attack, the device can be abnormally operated by malicious attack from attacker. Therefore, we describes a scenario which has the vulnerabilities of the BLE network in this paper and propose countermeasure method against MITM attacks integrity violations. Its mechanism provides data confidentiality and integrity with MD5 and security key distribution of Diffie Helman's method. In order to verify the effectiveness of the countermeasure method proposed in this paper, we have conducted the experiments. ​As experiments, the message was sent 200 times and all of them successfully detected whether there was MITM attack or not. In addition, it took at most about 4.2ms delay time with proposed countermeasure method between devices even attacking was going on. It is expected that more secure data transmission can be achieved between IoT devices on a BLE network through the method proposed.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2023

OOXML-based MS-Office digital files are extensively utilized by businesses and organizations worldwide. However, OOXML-based MS-Office digital files are vulnerable to forgery and corruption attack by including hidden suspicious information, which can lead to activating malware or shell code being hidden in the file. Such malicious code can cause a computer system to malfunction or become infected with ransomware. To prevent such attacks, it is necessary to analyze and detect the corruption of OOXML-based MS-Office files. In this paper, we examine the weaknesses of the existing OOXML-based MS-Office file structure and analyzes how concealment and forgery are performed on MS-Office digital files. As a result, we propose a system to detect hidden data effectively and proactively respond to ransomware attacks exploiting MS-Office security vulnerabilities. Proposed system is designed to provide reliable and efficient detection of hidden data in OOXML-based MS-Office files, which can help organizations protect against potential security threats.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.50-57
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• 2016

In 2013, Li et al. proposed an improved smart card-based remote user password authentication scheme, and claimed that their scheme not only overcomes security weaknesses of the Chen et al.'s scheme but also is a more user friendly scheme compared with other schemes. In this paper, we analyze the security of Li et al.'s authentication scheme and we show that Li et al.'s authentication scheme is still insecure against the various attacks, such as the off-line password guessing attack, the forgery attack, and the session key generation attack etc. Also, we propose an improved scheme that can resist these security drawbacks of Li et al.'s authentication, even if the secret information stored in the smart card is revealed. As a result of security analysis, the improved scheme is relatively more secure against several attacks than other related schemes in terms of the security.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.970-986
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• 2017

Certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC) is a new benchmark in modern cryptography. It not only simplifies the certificate management problem of PKC, but also avoids the key escrow problem of the identity based cryptosystem (ID-PKC). In this article, we propose a certificateless blind signature protocol which is based on elliptic curve cryptography (CLB-ECC). The scheme is suitable for the wireless communication environment because of smaller parameter size. The proposed scheme is proven to be secure against attacks by two different kinds of adversaries. CLB-ECC is efficient in terms of computation compared to the other existing conventional schemes. CLB-ECC can withstand forgery attack, key only attack, and known message attack. An e-cash framework, which is based on CLB-ECC, has also been proposed. As a result, the proposed CLB-ECC scheme seems to be more effective for applying to real life applications like e-shopping, e-voting, etc., in handheld devices.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2019

IAs smart device penetration rate is more than 90%, mobile transaction ratio using smart device is increasing. Smart contracts are used in various areas of real life including smart trading. By applying smart contracts to the platform for smart transactions through block-chain technology, the threat of hacking or forgery can be reduced. However, various threats to devices in smart transactions can pose a threat to the use of block chain Etherium, an important element in privilege and personal information management. Smart contract used in block chain Ethereum includes important information or transaction details of users. Therefore, in case of an attack of privilege elevation, it is very likely to exploit transaction details or forge or tamper with personal information inquiry. In this paper, we propose a detection and countermeasure method for privilege escalation attack, which is especially important for block chain for secure smart transaction using block chain Ethereum. When comparing the results of this study with the results of similar applications and researches, we showed about 12~13% improvement in performance and suggested the future countermeasures through packet analysis.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 전송되는 메시지의 무결성과 출처 인증을 위해 광범위하게 사용되는 메시지 인증 코드 (Message Authentication Code :MAC) 알고리즘을 제안하고 안전성을 분석한다. 제안된 MAC 알고리즘은 기본 블록 암호로 64-비트 블록과 56-비트 키를 가진 64비트 블록 암호 알고리즘을 이용하여 MAC 값의 길이를 64-비트와 32-비트를 사용하였을 경우의 안전성을 비교한다. 또한, 128-비트 블록과 128-비트 키를 가진 128비트 블록 암호 알고리즘을 이용하여, MAC 값의 길이를 128비트와 64-비트를 사용하였을 경우의 안전성을 비교한다 그래서 메시지의 길이와 MAC값의 길이에 따른 위장 공격의 안전성을 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1502-1522
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• 2019

Leakage of secret keys may be the most devastating problem in public key cryptosystems because it means that all security guarantees are missing. The forward security mechanism allows users to update secret keys frequently without updating public keys. Meanwhile, it ensures that an attacker is unable to derive a user's secret keys for any past time, even if it compromises the user's current secret key. Therefore, it offers an effective cryptographic approach to address the private key leakage problem. As an extension of the forward security mechanism in certificate-based public key cryptography, forward-secure certificate-based signature (FS-CBS) has many appealing merits, such as no key escrow, no secure channel and implicit authentication. Until now, there is only one FS-CBS scheme that does not employ the random oracles. Unfortunately, our cryptanalysis indicates that the scheme is subject to the security vulnerability due to the existential forgery attack from the malicious CA. Our attack demonstrates that a CA can destroy its existential unforgeability by implanting trapdoors in system parameters without knowing the target user's secret key. Therefore, it is fair to say that to design a FS-CBS scheme secure against malicious CAs without lying random oracles is still an unsolved issue. To address this problem, we put forward an enhanced FS-CBS scheme without random oracles. Our FS-CBS scheme not only fixes the security weakness in the original scheme, but also significantly optimizes the scheme efficiency. In the standard model, we formally prove its security under the complexity assumption of the square computational Diffie-Hellman problem. In addition, the comparison with the original FS-CBS scheme shows that our scheme offers stronger security guarantee and enjoys better performance.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2019

APK (Android Application Package)는 리패키징 공격에 취약하므로 APK 파일 내부에 난독화 기술이 적용되어 있다. 하지만 리버스 엔지니어링 기술 역시 더욱 고도화 됨에 따라 또다른 위조 모바일 APK 파일이 개발 및 배포되고 있어 새로운 대응 방식이 필요하다. 블록체인은 암호화 방식을 사용하여 연결 및 보호되는 레코드 블록이 지속적으로 추가되는 방식으로, 각 블록에는 일반적으로 이전 블록의 암호화 해시값, 타임스탬프 및 트랜잭션 데이터 등을 포함하고 있다. 따라서, 일단 블록체인에 기록되면 해당 블록의 데이터는 이후에 생성된 모든 블록을 변경하지 않고서는 소급해서 변경/수정할 수 없다. 그러므로 블록체인 기술을 적용하면 모바일 APK 파일에 대한 정상 및 위조 여부를 확인할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 Hyperledger Composer를 이용한 컨소시움 블록체인 프레임워크를 기반으로 합법적인 APK를 블록체인 내에 기록하고 유지함으로써 위조 APK에 대한 검출 기능을 제공하는 DApp (분산형 애플리케이션)을 개발하였다. 제안된 DApp을 통해 사용자의 스마트폰에 위조된 앱이 설치 되는 것을 사전에 방지 할 수 있으므로 궁극적으로는 정상적이고 합법적인 안드로이드 모바일 앱 사용 환경을 제공할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.159-166
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• 2012

스마트카드를 이용한 생체인식 기반 사용자 인증 스킴이 인증 시스템에서 안전성 취약점을 개선하기 위해 제안되고 있다. 2010년 Chang 등은 위조 공격, 오프라인 패스워드 추측 공격, 재생 공격 등에 안전한 개선된 생체인식 기반 사용자 인증 스킴을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 Chang 등의 스킴에 대한 안전성을 분석하고, Chang 등의 스킴이 중간자 공격, 오프라인 생체인식 추측 공격 등에 취약하고, 사용자와 서버 사이에 상호인증을 제공하지 못함을 증명하였다. 그리고 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 안전성 취약점들을 개선한 인증 스킴을 제안하였다. 안전성 분석 결과, 제안된 스킴은 사용자 가장 공격, 서버 가장 공격, 중간자 공격, 오프라인 생체인식 추측 공격 등에 안전하고, 사용자와 서버 사이에 상호인증을 제공하고 있음을 알 수 있다. 그리고 계산 복잡도 관점에서 제안된 스킴은 Chang 등의 스킴보다 효율적임을 알 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.846-864
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• 2017

Software Defined Network (SDN) realizes management and control over the underlying forwarding device, along with acquisition and analysis of network topology and flow characters through south bridge protocol. Data path Identification (DPID) is the unique identity for managing the underlying device, so forged DPID can be used to attack the link of underlying forwarding devices, as well as carry out DoS over the upper-level controller. This paper proposes a dynamic defense method based on Client-Puzzle model, in which the controller achieves dynamic management over requests from forwarding devices through generating questions with multi-level difficulty. This method can rapidly reduce network load, and at the same time separate attack flow from legal flow, enabling the controller to provide continuous service for legal visit. We conduct experiments on open-source SDN controllers like Fluid and Ryu, the result of which verifies feasibility of this defense method. The experimental result also shows that when cost of controller and forwarding device increases by about 2%-5%, the cost of attacker's CPU increases by near 90%, which greatly raises the attack difficulty for attackers.