• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.1701-1710
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• 2012

Recently, it has been found that it is important to use a smart grid to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide. A smart grid is a digitally enabled electrical grid that gathers, distributes, and acts on information regarding the behavior of all participants (suppliers and consumers) to improve the efficiency, importance, reliability, economics, and sustainability of electricity services. The smart grid technology uses two-way communication, where users can monitor and limit the electricity consumption of their home appliances in real time. Likewise, power companies can monitor and limit the electricity consumption of home appliances for stabilization of the electricity supply. However, if information regarding the measured electricity consumption of a user is leaked, serious privacy issues may arise, as such information may be used as a source of data mining of the electricity consumption patterns or life cycles of home residents. In this paper, we propose a data transaction protocol for privacy protection in a smart grid. In addition, a power company cannot decrypt an encrypted home appliance ID without the user's password.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.7 s.103
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• pp.965-972
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• 2005

Digital documents have become the mainstay of the paperless office. This is due to the increased usage of computer networks and the widespread digital culture. Along with the increased usage of digital documents comes the problem of securing them. The documents nay have very important information such as confidential business policies and intellectual Property statements. Generally, most of users protect them by using a password or secured flash memory or security software, but it has several weaknesses. Accordingly, we propose a new architecture for securing digital documents. The proposed architecture bases on RFID and several encrypting techniques. It makes up for the weakness of traditional securing architectures, and supports various Policies for digital documents of users.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.9C no.3
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• pp.343-350
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• 2002

This paper describes the implementation of H.235 protocol for authentication and media stream encryption of multimedia conference systems. H.235 protocol is recommended by ITU-T for H.323 multimedia conference security protocol to prevent from being eavesdropped and modified by an illegal attacker. The implementation in this paper has used password-based with symmetric encryption authentication. Media streams are encrypted using the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm and symmetric encryption algorithms such as RC2, DES and Triple-DES. Also, 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard and 128-bit Korean standard SEED algorithms are implemented for the future extension. The implemented authentication and media stream encryption has shown that it is possible to identify terminal users without exposing personal information on networks and to preserve security of multimedia conference. Also, encryption delay time and used memory are not increased even though supporting media stream encryption/decryption, thus the performance of multimedia conference system has not deteriorated.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

The hacking method came to be more complicated, became program ant it was automated. That is hacking trend of recent times. Before, The password crack, catch root authority is trend of hacking which uses the vulnerability of server. Hacker attack network or all of domain not some host. Web application system at hacking technique develops and improve transmitted data through the network shows many vulnerability. The massive data are transmitted through the network without encipherment filtering. It will be able to bring about the neck of a bottle actual condition which is serious in security system because of the network where the user comes to be many it leads and the data which is delivered comes to be many. In this paper, we propose web application system to prevent overload from bottleneck in encipherment system. It can solve security key trust problem in encoding and decoding with public key infrastructure.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.349-357
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• 2017

Many Web sites adopt SMS(Short Message Service)-based user authentication when a user loses her password or approves an online payment. In SMS-based authentication, the authentication server sends a text in plaintext to a user's phone, and it allows an attacker who eavesdrops or intercepts the text to impersonate a valid user(victim). We propose a challenge-response scheme to prove to the authentication server that a user is in a certain place at the moment with her smartphone beside her. The proposed scheme generates a response using a challenge by the server, user's current location, and a secret on the user's smartphone all together. Consequently, the scheme is much more secure than SMS-based authentication that simply asks a user to send the same text arrived on her phone back to the server. In addition to entering the response, which substitutes the SMS text, the scheme also requests a user to input a passphrase to get the authentication process started. We believe, however, the additional typing should be tolerable to most users considering the enhanced security level of the scheme.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.1
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• pp.128-134
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• 2016

IoT devices including smart devices are connected with internet, thus they have security threats everytime. Particularly, IoT devices are composed of low performance MCU and small-capacity memory because they are miniaturized, so they are likely to be exposed to various security threats like DoS attacks. In addition, in case of IoT devices installed for a remote place, it's not easy for users to control continuously them and to install immediately security patch for them. For most of IoT devices connected directly with internet under user's intention, devices exposed to outside by setting IoT gateway, and devices exposed to outside by the DMZ function or Port Forwarding function of router, specific protocol for IoT services was used and the devices show a response when services about related protocol are required from outside. From internet search engine for IoT devices, IP addresses are inspected on the basis of protocol mainly used for IoT devices and then IP addresses showing a response are maintained as database, so that users can utilize related information. Specially, IoT devices using HTTP and HTTPS protocol, which are used at usual web server, are easily searched at usual search engines like Google as well as search engine for the sole IoT devices. Ill-intentioned attackers get the IP addresses of vulnerable devices from search engine and try to attack the devices. The purpose of this study is to find the problems arisen when HTTP, HTTPS, CoAP, SOAP, and RestFUL protocols used for IoT devices are detected by search engine and are maintained as database, and to seek the solution for the problems. In particular, when the user ID and password of IoT devices set by manufacturing factory are still same or the already known vulnerabilities of IoT devices are not patched, the dangerousness of the IoT devices and its related solution were found in this study.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.168-177
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• 2009

This paper proposes the EAP-AKA scheme without UICC for extending its usage to existing WLAN/WiBro devices. To apply the current EAP-AKA scheme, the WLAN/WiBro devices require an external Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) reader. If they don't use UICC due to cost overhead and architectural problem of device, the EAP-AKA scheme loses its own advantages in security and portability aspects. The proposed scheme uses the DH key algorithm and a password for non-UICC devices instead of using the long-term key stored in UICC. The main contribution is to maintain the security and portability of the EAP-AKA while being applied to non-3GPP network devices not equipped with UICC. Furthermore, it does not require major modifications of authentication architecture in 3GPP.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.43-50
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• 2011

Currently, conventional security methods including IC card or password type method are quickly switched into biometric security systems in various applications and the electrocardiogram (ECG) has been considered as one of novel biometrics way. However, conventional ECG based biometrics used lead II signal which conventionally used for formulaic signal to heart disease diagnosis and it is not suitable for biometrics since it is rather difficult to find consistent features for heart disease patents. To overcome this problem, we developed new biometrics system using ECG lead III signals. For wave extraction, signal peak points are extracted through AAV algorithm. For feature selection, extracted waves are categorized into one of four wave types and total twenty two features including number of vertices, wave shapes, amplitude information and interval information are extracted based on their wave types. Experimental results for thirty-six people showed 100% specificity, 95.59% sensitivity and 99.17% of overall identification accuracy.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.499-504
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• 2013

Automation is being progressed rapidly in various fields with the advancement of IT technology. Home automation is a typical application and is being used in a variety of ways now. Most of digital door lock systems simply support to open and close a door using the methods of password and a particular magnetic key. In this paper, we propose a intelligent digital door lock system using face recognition technology. Our proposed system can control the locking device opening and closing from a remote location after confirming the identification of the visitor via a smart device, and support the reliable and secure control of door systems.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.517-523
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• 2012

Biometrics is a study of identifying individual by using the features of human body. It has been studied for an alternative or complementary method for the classical method based on password, ID card, etc. In comparison with the fingerprint, iris, ear, palmprint, finger-knuckle print has been recently studied. This paper proposes an effective method for recognizing finger-knuckle print based on the feature of Gradient orientation. The main features of finger-knuckle print are the size and direction of winkles. In order to extract these features stably, we make a feature vector consisted of Gradient orientations after the preprocessing of enhancing non-uniform brightness and low contrast. Total 790 images acquired from 158 persons have been used at the experiment for evaluating the performance of the proposed method. The experimental results show the recognition rate of 99.69% and the relatively high decidability index of 1.882. These results demonstrate that the proposed method is effective in recognizing finger-knuckle print.