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Secured Search and Rescue Signal using COSPAS-SARSAT

COSPAS-SARSAT을 이용한 탐색구조 신호 보안

  • Baek, Yoojin (Dept. of Information Security, Woosuk University) ;
  • Cho, Taenam (Dept. of Information Security, Woosuk University) ;
  • Kim, Jaehyun (Satellite & Wireless Convergence Research Department, Electronic Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Lee, Sanguk (Satellite & Wireless Convergence Research Department, Electronic Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Ahn, Woo-Geun (The 3rd R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development)
  • 백유진 (우석대학교 정보보안학과) ;
  • 조태남 (우석대학교 정보보안학과) ;
  • 김재현 (한국전자통신연구원 위성무선융합연구부) ;
  • 이상욱 (한국전자통신연구원 위성무선융합연구부) ;
  • 안우근 (국방과학연구소 제3기술연구본부)
  • Received : 2013.11.20
  • Accepted : 2013.12.31
  • Published : 2014.02.01

Abstract

The international COSPAS-SARSAT program is a satellite-based search and rescue distress alert detection and information distribution system and best known as the system that detects and locates emergency beacons activated by aircraft, ships and so on. However, the current message format of the system is not encrypted so that, if the rescue signal can be intercepted by the unintended receivers, the subsequent rescue activities can be handled in a hostile environment. So, this article concerns how to deal with the rescue signals in a secure way and proposes some adequate encryption methods and the corresponding key management.

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