• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.63-74
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• 2009

There have been many previous studies about an effect of anonymity on self control behavior. However the previous studies are on the aspect of results such as the usefulness, the problems of cyber crime or a lack of trust by anonymity. This study identifies the accurate definition of the objective technical anonymity and subjective social anonymity. And it reveals the relationship among technical anonymity, social anonymity, community tie, and self control as an effect of anonymity. The result of survey shows that technical anonymity affects self control through social anonymity and the relationship between technical and social anonymity is affected by community tie. This study presents how the anonymity affects individual behaviors. So it can be used as a reference to the policy on anonymity of the internet.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.63-74
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• 2011

Tension and self-control are explanatory factors in adolescent delinquency, and internet addiction and anonymity are regarded as factors underlying cyber deviation. The aim of this study was to investigate the interrelationships between these factors and cyber deviation. Participants were 485 middle and high school students in the Jeonbuk region. The results showed that tension and self-control were predictors of cyber deviation and that internet addiction was a mediating variable for both the predictors. Anonymity was found to have a mediating role, but only in respect of the tension-cyber deviation pathway. These findings suggested a number of implications. Firstly, the educational programs on cyber deviation should be different from the existing deviation prevention programs. Secondly, measures to prevent internet addiction are needed for the effective prevention of cyber deviation. Lastly, the finding of a relationship between anonymity and cyber deviation indicates the need to adopt a long-term perspective drawing on values education techniques to develop a code of cyber space ethics for "netizens".

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.257-281
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of social anonymity on community quality and find out mediating factors that affect the relationship between social anonymity and community quality in online community sites. This study focuses on the factors such as self expression, self control, and community ties to investigate their mediating roles on the relationship between social anonymity and community quality. Also, discussion quality and information quality are used to measure online community quality. The results of this study show that social anonymity is directly related to discussion quality but not related to information quality. As for the mediating effects, self expression, self control and community ties are all shown to have strong mediating effects on the social anonymity and community quality relationship.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.6
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• pp.757-764
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• 2001

The increase of electronic commerce leads to the increasing attention to the way customers pay and a large number of researches on payment system. Recently many researches on a system which provides anonymity in order to protect user\`s privacy have been carried out. And some potential problems from that system are being reviewed by anonymity control system. This thesis will include the following. First, I want to analyze the old scheme related to divisible and examine general ideas of anonymity control. Second, I propose a new blind signature in addition to KCDSA, the standard digital signature in Korea. The last one I want to propose is a new electronic cash system with the divisible for more efficient use of electronic cash which can control anonymity with the help of trustee.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.51-58
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• 2016

The unprecedented power of cloud computing (CC) that enables free sharing of confidential data records for further analysis and mining has prompted various security threats. Thus, supreme cyberspace security and mitigation against adversaries attack during data mining became inevitable. So, privacy preserving data mining is emerged as a precise and efficient solution, where various algorithms are developed to anonymize the data to be mined. Despite the wide use of generalized K-anonymizing approach its protection and truthfulness potency remains limited to tiny output space with unacceptable utility loss. By combining L-diversity and (${\alpha}$,k)-anonymity, we proposed a hybrid K-anonymity data relocation algorithm to surmount such limitation. The data relocation being a tradeoff between trustfulness and utility acted as a control input parameter. The performance of each K-anonymity's iteration is measured for data relocation. Data rows are changed into small groups of indistinguishable tuples to create anonymizations of finer granularity with assured privacy standard. Experimental results demonstrated considerable utility enhancement for relatively small number of group relocations.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.103-111
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• 2011

Objectives : This study compared covert narcissistic propensity in adolescents with internet addiction tendency to normal adolescents. Further, we investigated the correlation between such propensities and anonymity in cyberspace, presence feeling and interactivity in internet gaming, and achievement motivation in adolescents with internet addiction tendencies. Methods : Male middle school students with internet addiction tendencies (Addiction Tendency Group, N=27) and normal students (Control Group, N=29) were recruited. The scale of internet use, Covert Narcissism Scale, scale of achievement motivation, scale of anonymity in cyberspace, scale of presence feeling in internet games, and the scale of interactivity in internet games were administered. A comparison of the average scores and correlation analyses were performed. Results : 1) Compared with Control Group, the Addiction Tendency Group showed significantly higher scores on all subscales of the Covert Narcissism Scale, and both the scale of presence feeling and that of interactivity in internet games. Further, the score on the scale of achievement motivation for the Addiction Tendency Group was significantly lower than that of the Control Group. 2) In the Addiction Tendency Group, the scores on several subscales of the Covert Narcissism Scale were significantly positively correlated with the scores on the scale of presence feeling in internet games, anonymity in cyberspace, and interactivity in internet games. However, in the Control Group, the scores of several subscales on the Covert Narcissism Scale were significantly negatively correlated with the score on the scale of achievement motivation, and was significantly positively correlated with the score on the scale of interactivity in internet games. There were no other significant correlations between the scores on the subscales of the Covert Narcissism Scale and the scores of either presence feeling in internet games or anonymity in cyberspace. Conclusion : These results suggested that adolescents with a tendency to be addicted to the internet exhibited higher covert narcissistic propensities than normal adolescents and that the covert narcissistic tendencies were related with presence feeling in cyber games as well as with anonymity in cyberspace.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.65-68
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• 2005

Privacy preservation is crucial in ubiquitous computing environment in which lots of privacy- sensitive information can be collected and distributed without appropriate control. The anonymity-based approach is a famous one used for privacy preservation communication, which allows users to use pseudonyms instead of real ID so as not to reveal their identities. This approach is effective in that it can hide the identity of users. However, it makes it difficult to provide ID-based services like buddy service, dangerous area alert, P2P communication in the ubiquitous computing. We proposes a system architecture which enables ID-based services in the ubiquitous computing environment employing anonymity - based privacy - preserving approach.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.266-269
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• 2002

As a simulation or replacement of analog money in cyber space, the e-cash was introduced by using cryptographic primitives. Since a perfect anonymity system causes some illegal activities, such as money laundering, blackmailing, and illegal purchase, a revocable electronic system was paid a great attention to control the anonymity. In general, Trust Third Party(TTP) is introduced to detect any dubious user and coin, namely user tracing and coin tracing. In this paper we propose a new revocable anonymity e-cash system, and verify the security requirement as well. In our scheme a user first withdraws the e-coin from bank by using blind signature, and then TTP verifies the bank's signature and records the tracing information.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.839-846
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• 1999

전자상거래에서 중요한 지불 수단으로 떠오르고 있는 전자화폐 시스템에 있어서 사용자에의 익명성 제공은 기존의 지불 시스템에서 제공하지 못하는 중요한 요소이다. 그러나 사용자 익명성을 악용하여 각종 범죄 활동에 이용하려는 시도가 발생할 수 있으며 전자화폐 시스템 도입시 이에 대한 대책도 함께 강구되어야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 전자화폐의 효율적 사용을 위해 분할성 기능과 함께 화폐 추적과 사용자 추적 기능을 제공하는 효율적인 전자화폐 프로토콜을 제안한다.Abstract Electronic Cash System is an important payment method in Electronic Commerce. The anonymity of users is an important issue in such systems, but the issue has not been addressed by previous payment methods. User anonymity can lead to a system that is vulnerable to various criminal activities. Therefore, e-cash systems must consider ways to prevent such criminal activities. In this paper we suggest an efficient e-cash system that eliminates the vulnerability of the system by using the divisible ability of the system with the coin and owner tracing.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.85-97
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• 1999

A blind signature scheme is a protocol allowing verifier to obtain a valid signature for a message m from a signer without him seeing the message. This means that the bank in collaboration with the shop cannot trace the electronic cash to user. However anonymous electronic cash also facilitates fraud and criminal acts such as money laundering anonymous blackmailing and illegal purchaes. Therefore in this paper we propose fair blind signature scheme based on KCDSA which is a domestic digital signature scheme and it apply a electronic cash system. In particularly a proposed electronic cash system have an anonymity control ability which trace a user who make use a electronic cash illegally in association with a trusted center.