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Secure MAP Discovery Schemes in Hierarchical MIPv6 (계층적 Mobile IPv6에서의 안전한 MAP 검색 기법)

  • Choi, Jong-Hyoun;Mun, Young-Song
    • Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 2007
  • The Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) has been proposed to accommodate frequent mobility of the Mobile Node and to reduce the signaling load. A Mobility Anchor Point is a router located in a network visited by the Mobile Node. The Mobile Node uses the Mobile Anchor Point as a local Home Agent. The absence of any protections between Mobile Node and Mobile Anchor Point may lead to malicious Mobile Nodes impersonating other legitimate ones or impersonating a Mobile Anchor Point. In this paper, we propose a mechanism of the secure Mobile Anther Point discovery in HMIPv6. The performance analysis and the numerical results presented in this paper show that our proposal has superior performance to other methods.

A Scalable Distributed Worm Detection and Prevention Model using Lightweight Agent (경량화 에이전트를 이용한 확장성 있는 분산 웜 탐지 및 방지 모델)

  • Park, Yeon-Hee;Kim, Jong-Uk;Lee, Seong-Uck;Kim, Chol-Min;Tariq, Usman;Hong, Man-Pyo
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.517-521
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    • 2008
  • A worm is a malware that propagates quickly from host to host without any human intervention. Need of early worm detection has changed research paradigm from signature based worm detection to the behavioral based detection. To increase effectiveness of proposed solution, in this paper we present mechanism of detection and prevention of worm in distributed fashion. Furthermore, to minimize the worm destruction; upon worm detection we propagate the possible attack aleγt to neighboring nodes in secure and organized manner. Considering worm behavior, our proposed mechanism detects worm cycles and infection chains to detect the sudden change in network performance. And our model neither needs to maintain a huge database of signatures nor needs to have too much computing power, that is why it is very light and simple. So, our proposed scheme is suitable for the ubiquitous environment. Simulation results illustrate better detection and prevention which leads to the reduction of infection rate.

PNC(Pipeline Network Coding)-Based Message and Node Authentication in Wireless Networks (무선 네트워크에서 파이프라인 네트워크 코딩 기반 메시지 및 노드 인증)

  • Ahn, Myeong-Gi;Cho, Young-Jong;Kang, Kyungran
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.42 no.5
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    • pp.999-1008
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we propose a pipeline network coding (PNC) scheme for efficient data transmission in wireless networks, a data authentication scheme for verifying the integrity of data, and a node authentication scheme for a virtual source. PNC is a technique that improves the overall network performance by relaying data such that the relay node performing network coding transmits to the sender instead. However, network coding is vulnerable to a pollution attack, which is an attack by a malicious attacker to inject modified data into the network. To prevent this, hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) is used. For this purpose, in order to generate a tag used for data authentication, a key must be distributed to the nodes performing authentication. We applied a hash chain to minimize the overhead of key distribution. A null vector is used as the authentication scheme for the virtual source. Finally, we analyze the safety and complexity of the proposed scheme and show he performance through simulation.

Enhanced Secure Sensor Association and Key Management in Wireless Body Area Networks

  • Shen, Jian;Tan, Haowen;Moh, Sangman;Chung, Ilyong;Liu, Qi;Sun, Xingming
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.453-462
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    • 2015
  • Body area networks (BANs) have emerged as an enabling technique for e-healthcare systems, which can be used to continuously and remotely monitor patients' health. In BANs, the data of a patient's vital body functions and movements can be collected by small wearable or implantable sensors and sent using shortrange wireless communication techniques. Due to the shared wireless medium between the sensors in BANs, it may be possible to have malicious attacks on e-healthcare systems. The security and privacy issues of BANs are becoming more and more important. To provide secure and correct association of a group of sensors with a patient and satisfy the requirements of data confidentiality and integrity in BANs, we propose a novel enhanced secure sensor association and key management protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography and hash chains. The authentication procedure and group key generation are very simple and efficient. Therefore, our protocol can be easily implemented in the power and resource constrained sensor nodes in BANs. From a comparison of results, furthermore, we can conclude that the proposed protocol dramatically reduces the computation and communication cost for the authentication and key derivation compared with previous protocols. We believe that our protocol is attractive in the application of BANs.

MPICH-GP : An MPI Extension to Supporting Private IP Clusters in Grid Environments (MPICH-GP : 그리드 상에서 사설 IP 클러스터 지원을 위한 MPI 확장)

  • Park, Kum-Rye;Yun, Hyun-Jun;Park, Sung-Yong;Kwon, Oh-Young;Kwon, Oh-Kyoung
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.14A no.1 s.105
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2007
  • MPICH-G2 is an MPI implementation to solve complex computational problems by utilizing geographically dispersed computing resources in grid environments. However, the computation nodes in MPICH-G2 are exposed to the external network due to the lack of supporting the private IP clusters, which raises the possibility of malicious security attacks. In order to address this problem, we propose MPICH-GP with a new relay scheme combining NAT(Network Address Translation) service and an user-level proxy. The proxy running on the front-end system of private IP clusters forwards the incoming connection requests to the systems inside the clusters. The outgoing connection requests out of the cluster are forwarded through the NAT service on the front-end system. Through the connection path between the pair of processes, the requested MPI jobs can be successfully executed in grid environments with various clusters including private IP clusters. By simulations, we show that the performance of MPICH-GP reaches over 80% of the performance of MPICH-G2, and over 95% in ease of using RANK management method.

A Study on the Countermeasure of Cyber Attacks Using Anonymous Network (익명네트워크를 이용한 사이버공격에 대한 대응방안 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Hyun;Ahn, Kwan-Joon;Park, Won-Hyung;Lim, Jong-In
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2011
  • Recently on tile network to ensure the anonymity of Mixed networking has been actively researched. It uses encrypted communications between Nodes and communications path is changed often to the attacker traceback and response, including the difficult thing is the reality. National institutions and infrastructure in these circumstances, the attack on the national level, if done on a large scale can be disastrous in. However, an anonymous network technology to cover up their own internet communication, it malicious form of Internet use by people who enjoy being continually updated and new forms of technology being developed is a situation continuously. In addition, attacks in the future application of these technologies is expected to continue to emerge. However, this reality does not deserve this thesis is prepared. In this paper, anonymously using a network to respond effectively to a cyber attack on the early detection research is to proceed.

The development of a ship's network monitoring system using SNMP based on standard IEC 61162-460

  • Wu, Zu-Xin;Rind, Sobia;Yu, Yung-Ho;Cho, Seok-Je
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.40 no.10
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    • pp.906-915
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    • 2016
  • In this study, a network monitoring system, including a secure 460-Network and a 460-Gateway, is designed and developed according with the requirements of the IEC (International Electro-Technical Commission) 61162-460 network standard for the safety and security of networks on board ships. At present, internal or external unauthorized access to or malicious attack on a ship's on board systems are possible threats to the safe operation of a ship's network. To secure the ship's network, a 460-Network was designed and implemented by using a 460-Switch, 460-Nodes, and a 460-Gateway that contains firewalls and a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) with various application servers. In addition, a 460-firewall was used to block all traffic from unauthorized networks. 460-NMS (Network Monitoring System) is a network-monitoring software application that was developed by using an simple network management protocol (SNMP) SharpNet library with the .Net 4.5 framework and a backhand SQLite database management system, which is used to manage network information. 460-NMS receives network information from a 460-Switch by utilizing SNMP, SNMP Trap, and Syslog. 460-NMS monitors the 460-Network load, traffic flow, current network status, network failure, and unknown devices connected to the network. It notifies the network administrator via alarms, notifications, or warnings in case any network problem occurs. Once developed, 460-NMS was tested both in a laboratory environment and for a real ship network that had been installed by the manufacturer and was confirmed to comply with the IEC 61162-460 requirements. Network safety and security issues onboard ships could be solved by designing a secure 460-Network along with a 460-Gateway and by constantly monitoring the 460-Network according to the requirements of the IEC 61162-460 network standard.

Implementation of Security Enforcement Engine for Active Nodes in Active Networks (액티브 네트워크 상에서 액티브 노드의 보안 강화를 위한 보안 엔진 구현)

  • Kim, Ok-Kyeung;Lim, Ji-Young;Na, Hyun-Jung;Na, Ga-Jin;Kim, Yeo-Jin;Chae, Ki-Joon;Kim, Dong-Young
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.10C no.4
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    • pp.413-422
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    • 2003
  • An active network is a new generation network based on a software-intensive network architecture in which applications are able to inject new strategies or code into the infrastructure for their immediate needs. Therefore, the secure active node architecture is needed to give the capability defending an active node against threats that may be more dynamic and powerful than those in traditional networks. In this paper, a security enforcement engine is proposed to secure active networks. We implemented an operating engine with security, authentication and a authorization modules. Using this engine, it is possible that active networks are protected from threats of the malicious active node.

A Strong Address Generation and Verification Scheme using Hash Functions in the IPv6 Environments (IPv6 환경에서 해쉬 함수 기반 강건한 주소 생성 및 검증 기법)

  • Gyeong, Gye-Hyeon;Ko, Kwang-Sun;Eom, Young-Ik
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.115-119
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    • 2007
  • The IPv6 protocol provides the method to automatically generate an address of a node without additional operations of administrators, Before the generated address is used, the duplicate address detection (DAD) mechanism is required in order to verify the address. However, during the process of verification of the address, it is possible for a malicious node to send a message with the address which is identical with the generated address, so the address can be considered as previously used one; although the node properly generates an address, the address cannot be used. In this paper, we present a strong scheme to perform the DAD mechanism based on hash functions in IPv6 networks. Using this scheme, many nodes, which frequently join or separate from wireless networks in public domains like airports, terminals, and conference rooms, can effectively generate and verify an address more than the secure neighbor discovery (SEND) mechanism.

Proactive Code Verification Protocol Using Empty Memory Deletion in Wireless Sensor Network (무선 센서 네트워크에서의 메모리 공간 삭제를 이용한 선행 코드-검증 기법)

  • Choi, Young-Geun;Kang, Jeon-Il;Lee, Kyung-Hee;Nyang, Dae-Hun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2007
  • The authentication in WSN(Wireless Sensor Network) usually means the entity authentication, but owing to the data centric nature of sensor network, much more importance must be put on the authentication(or attestation) for code of sensor nodes. The naive approach to the attestation is for the verifier to compare the previously known memory contents of the target node with the actual memory contents in the target node, but it has a significant drawback. In this paper, we show what the drawback is and propose a countermeasure. This scheme can verify the whole memory space of the target node and provides extremely low probability of malicious code's concealment without depending on accurate timing information unlike SWATT. We provide two modes of this verification method: BS-to-node and node-to-node. The performance estimation in various environments is shown.