• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.737-741
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• 2019

최초의 암호화폐인 비트코인과 동시에 등장한 블록체인 기술은 시대를 지나며 발전을 거듭하여 현재는 많은 사람들의 관심을 이끄는 기술이 되었다. 블록체인은 내용을 손쉽게 변경할 수 없는 특징을 지니며 그에 따라 강한 신뢰도를 지니게 된다. 이러한 특징으로 인해 블록체인은 암호화폐 뿐만 아니라 다양한 분야에서 사용되기 시작했다. 우리는 본 특징을 활용하여 블록체인 기반의 애완동물 등록제를 제안한다. 현재 애완동물 산업은 규모가 상당히 거대하며 애완동물은 주인에게 강한 책임이 주어진다. 국내에서는 동물등록제를 통해 동물을 관리하지만 다른 법령과 상충되는 부분 때문에 의미가 퇴색하며 실효성에 이의가 제기되고 있다. 블록체인을 활용한 동물등록제는 부분적으로 공개된 환경에서 정보를 공유하며 분양 등의 사유로 주인이 변경되었을 경우 이를 손쉽게 추적할 수 있는 기반을 제공한다. 따라서 현재 동물등록제의 단점을 크게 해소할 수 있을 것으로 예상되며 다양한 장점을 지니기에 제안하는 바이다.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.41-47
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• 2018

블록체인을 포함하는 분산원장기술은 네트워크의 참여자들이 공인된 제3자 없이도 공동으로 거래 정보를 검증하고 기록, 보관함으로써 원장의 무결성 및 신뢰성을 확보하기 위한 기술이다. 신뢰할 수 없는 네트워크 상에서 합의된 거래 기록을 유지 관리할 수 있다는 특징으로 인해 금융권 뿐만 아니라 공공, 물류, 의료 등 광범위한 분야에 적용 가능한 새로운 플랫폼으로 기대를 모으고 있다. 본 고에서는 국제 표준화 기구에서 진행되고 있는 전반적인 블록체인 관련 표준화 활동을 소개하고 향후의 전망과 이에 따른 대응 방안을 검토한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.442-445
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• 2017

전자투표시스템이 도입되었지만, 투표 과정에서 안정성 및 신뢰성 문제는 매번 제시되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 최근 보안 분야에서 주목받고 있는 블록체인 기술을 도입하여 위 문제를 해결하고자 한다. 블록체임 기술이란 기존의 서버-클라이언트 형태의 중앙 집중형이 아닌 P2P로 구현된 분산형 플랫폼을 제공하는 기술이다. 이를 활용해 다양한 분야에서 기반기술로써 사용될 수 있다. 데이터가 한 곳에 집중되는 것이 아닌 시스템에 참여한 모든 사용자가 동인한 데이터를 공유하기에 투명성, 공정성을 보증할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이 특징을 활용한 블록체인 기반 전자투표시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템은 사용자가 시행한 투표와 관련된 정보를 블록으로 생성하여 모든 유권자에게 배포하며, 블록의 정당성을 검사한다. 또한, 사용자가 가진 블록체인을 분석하여 결과를 실시간으로 시각화한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

The Neis System is a system integrating administrative information that was operated in elementary and secondary schools in Korea. Currently, this system is operated by a central server method and contains school administration information and important educational information of students. Among student information, the student life record contains important information for a student to advance to a higher level institution, but problems such as information leakage or manipulation may occur due to malicious attacks. In this paper, we propose a hybrid blockchain system that combines the server and blockchain technology managed by the existing Neis system. The proposed system records the query information of the database in a block when student information is accessed. When a request for correction of student information or issuance of a certificate is received, the query of the blockchain, the information in the database, and the student's key value are checked to determine whether the information has been leaked or manipulated, and only if the data is normal, the request for revision of the record is performed. This process is more secure than the existing central server because it checks the manipulation of data through the blockchain. The proposed system was implemented on the Ethereum platform, and the query information of the blockchain was experimentally verified using smart contracts. This study contributes to enhancing the reliability of the Nice system by strengthening the security against forgery and alteration of student data by combining the existing Nice system with a block chain.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.87-100
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• 2020

Researches on Post-quantum blockchain, which is a synthesis of blockchain and post-quantum cryptography[1], are relatively unrevealed areas but have needs to be studied with the regard to the quantum computers. However there could be several fundamental problems, e.g. unsustainably large size of public key and signature, or too lengthy time for sign and verification, if any post-quantum cryptography is adopted to the existing blockchain to implement post-quantum blockchain. Thus, a new method was proposed in this paper that produces fixed length of references for massive signatures and corresponding public keys to enable relatively lightweight transactions. This paper proposed the mechanism that included a new transaction structure and protocols, and demonstrated a post-quantum blockchain that the proposed mechanism was adopted. Through this research, it could enhance compatibility of blockchain regarding post-quantum digital signature, possibly reducing weights of the whole blockchain.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.253-262
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• 2023

E-voting is a concept that includes actions such as kiosk voting at a designated place and internet voting at an unspecified place, and has emerged to alleviate the problem of consuming a lot of resources and costs when conducting offline voting. Using E-voting has many advantages over existing voting systems, such as increased efficiency in voting and ballot counting, reduced costs, increased voting rate, and reduced errors. However, centralized E-voting has not received attention in public elections and voting on corporate agendas because the results of voting cannot be trusted due to concerns about data forgery and modulation and hacking by others. In order to solve this problem, recently, by designing an E-voting system using blockchain, research has been actively conducted to supplement concepts lacking in existing E-voting, such as increasing the reliability of voting information and securing transparency. In this paper, we proposed an electronic voting system that introduced hybrid blockchain that uses public and private blockchains in convergence. A hybrid blockchain can solve the problem of slow transaction processing speed, expensive fee by using a private blockchain, and can supplement for the lack of transparency and data integrity of transactions through a public blockchain. In addition, the proposed system is implemented as BaaS to ensure the ease of type conversion and scalability of blockchain and to provide powerful computing power. BaaS is an abbreviation of Blockchain as a Service, which is one of the cloud computing technologies and means a service that provides a blockchain platform ans software through the internet. In this paper, in order to evaluate the feasibility, the proposed system and domestic and foreign electronic voting-related studies are compared and analyzed in terms of blockchain type, anonymity, verification process, smart contract, performance, and scalability.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.23-39
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• 2021

This study aims to explore research trends in Blockchain studies in South Korea using dynamic topic modeling and network analysis. To achieve this goal, we conducted the university & institute collaboration network analysis, the keyword co-occurrence network analysis, and times series topic analysis using dynamic topic modeling. Through the university & institute collaboration network analysis, we found major universities such as Soongsil University, Soonchunhyang University, Korea University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and major institutes such as Ministry of National Defense, Korea Railroad Research Institute, Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute that led collaborative research. Next, through the analysis of the keyword co-occurrence network, we found major research keywords including virtual assets (Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Virtual currency), blockchain technology (Distributed ledger, Distributed ledger technology), finance (Smart contract), and information security (Security, privacy, Personal information). Smart contracts showed the highest scores in all network centrality measures showing its importance in the field. Finally, through the time series topic analysis, we identified five major topics including blockchain technology, blockchain ecosystem, blockchain application 1 (trade, online voting, real estate), blockchain application 2 (food, tourism, distribution, media), and blockchain application 3 (economy, finance). Changes of topics were also investigated by exploring proportions of representative keywords for each topic. The study is the first of its kind to attempt to conduct university & institute collaboration networks analysis and dynamic topic modeling-based times series topic analysis for exploring research trends in Blockchain studies in South Korea. Our results can be used by government agencies, universities, and research institutes to develop effective strategies of promoting university & institutes collaboration and interdisciplinary research in the field.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.3-19
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• 2020

Artificial intelligence(AI) and blockchain are developing as the core technology leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, AI is still showing limitations in securing and verifying data and explaining the evidence for the results, and blockchain also has some drawbacks such as excessive energy consumption and lack of flexibility in data management. This study analyzed technological limitations of AI and blockchain and convergence trends to overcome them, and finally suggested ways to improve Korea's related policies. Specifically, in terms of R&D reinforcement, we proposed 1) mid- and long-term AI /blockchain convergence research at the national level and 2) blockchain-based AI data platform development. In terms of creating an innovative ecosystem, we also suggested 3) development of AI/blockchain convergence applications by industry, and 4) Start-up support for developing AI/blockchain convergence business models. Lastly, in terms of improving the legal system, we insisted that 5) widening the application of regulatory sandboxes and 6) improving regulations related to privacy protection is necessary.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.289-299
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• 2024

Blockchains are not efficient for real-time processing because the growing number of transactions and users delays many computations and network communications. This study proposes a cloud proxy server, so that legitimate users can use blockchain as well as reduce network latency. To proceed with a blockchain transaction, the blockchain copy server verifies all transaction-related data, but the cloud proxy server verifies legitimate users with a simple zero-knowledge proof algorithm, enabling efficient blockchain real-time processing. The cloud proxy server can support blockchain anonymity, security, and scalability that can verify legitimate users with the proposed zero-knowledge proof by receiving the registered key pair of the blockchain user. In the proposed research analysis, blockchain-based cloud proxy server reduces network latency compared to previous studies and key processing on cloud proxy servers reduces the cost of key computation compared to previous studies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.1060-1061
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• 2019

블록체인은 2009년 이후 여러 산업군(금융, 유통, 암호화폐등)에서 만들어졌으며 특정 사업에서 utility기능을 수행하는 것을 목표로 개발되고 유통되고 있다. 하지만 블록체인은 실생활에 사용하기에 아직 많은 제약이 존재하기 때문에 활성화가 안 되고 있다. 본 연구는 블록체인의 운용 시 존재하는 여러 제약들을 블록체인 승인시스템을 통하여 해결하고자 한다.