• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.109-116
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• 2018

This paper describes an area-efficient design of SHA-256 hash function that is widely used in various security protocols including digital signature, authentication code, key generation. The SHA-256 hash processor includes a padder block for padding and parsing input message, so that it can operate without software for preprocessing. Round function was designed with a 16-bit data-path that processed 64 round computations in 128 clock cycles, resulting in an optimized area per throughput (APT) performance as well as small area implementation. The SHA-256 hash processor was verified by FPGA implementation using Virtex5 device, and it was estimated that the throughput was 337 Mbps at maximum clock frequency of 116 MHz. The synthesis for ASIC implementation using a $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS cell library shows that it has 13,251 gate equivalents (GEs) and it can operate up to 200 MHz clock frequency.

• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.11-16
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• 2021

The importance of software is increasing due to the development of information and communication, and software copyright disputes are also increasing. In this paper, the source of the submitted programs and the files necessary for the execution of the program were taken as the scope of analysis. The large-capacity file transfer solution program to be analyzed provides additional functions such as confidentiality, integrity, user authentication, and non-repudiation functions through digital signature and encryption of data.In this paper, we analyze the program A, program B, and the program C. In order to calculate the program similarity rate, the following contents are analyzed. Analyze the similarity of the package structure, package name, source file name in each package, variable name in source file, function name, function implementation source code, and product environment variable information. It also calculates the overall similarity rate of the program. In order to check the degree of agreement between the package structure and the package name, the similarity was determined by comparing the folder structure. It also analyzes the extent to which the package structure and package name match and the extent to which the source file (class) name within each package matches.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.187-196
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• 2016

Android applications are inherently vulnerable to a repackaging attack such that malicious codes are easily inserted into an application and then resigned by the attacker. These days, it occurs often that such private or individual information is leaked. In principle, all Android applications are composed of user defined methods and APIs. As well as accessing to resources on platform, APIs play a role as a practical functional feature, and user defined methods play a role as a feature by using APIs. In this paper we propose a scheme to analyze sensitive APIs mostly used in malicious applications in terms of how malicious applications operate and which API they use. Based on the characteristics of target APIs, we accumulate the knowledge on such APIs using a machine learning scheme based on Naive Bayes algorithm. Resulting from the learned results, we are able to provide fine-grained numeric score on the degree of vulnerabilities of mobile applications. In doing so, we expect the proposed scheme will help mobile application developers identify the security level of applications in advance.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.51-57
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• 2024

Although industrial control systems (ICSs) recently keep evolving with the introduction of Industrial IoT converging information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), it also leads to a variety of threats and vulnerabilities, which was not experienced in the past ICS with no connection to the external network. Since various control command messages are sent to field devices of the ICS for the purpose of monitoring and controlling the operational processes, it is required to guarantee the message integrity as well as control center authentication. In case of the conventional message integrity codes and signature schemes based on symmetric keys and public keys, respectively, they are not suitable considering the asymmetry between the control center and field devices. Especially, compromised node attacks can be mounted against the symmetric-key-based schemes. In this paper, we propose message authentication scheme based on double hash chains constructed from cryptographic hash function without introducing other primitives, and then propose extension scheme using Merkle tree for multiple uses of the double hash chains. It is shown that the proposed scheme is much more efficient in computational complexity than other conventional schemes.