• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2014

An access control system is needed to ensure only authorized users can access a sensitive resource. We propose a secure access control based on a fully secure and fine grained ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption scheme. The access control for a sensitive resource is ensured by encrypting it with encryption algorithm from the CP-ABE scheme parameterized by an access control policy. Furthermore, the proposed access control supports non-monotone type access control policy. The ciphertext only can be recovered by users whose attributes satisfy the access control policy. We also implement and measure the performance of our proposed access control. The results of experiments show that our proposed secure access control is feasible.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.323-342
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• 2021

Personal health records (PHRs) is an electronic medical system that enables patients to acquire, manage and share their health data. Nevertheless, data confidentiality and user privacy in PHRs have not been handled completely. As a fine-grained access control over health data, ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) has an ability to guarantee data confidentiality. However, existing CP-ABE solutions for PHRs are facing some new challenges in access control, such as policy privacy disclosure and dynamic policy update. In terms of addressing these problems, we propose a privacy protection and dynamic share system (PPADS) based on CP-ABE for PHRs, which supports full policy hiding and flexible access control. In the system, attribute information of access policy is fully hidden by attribute bloom filter. Moreover, data user produces a transforming key for the PHRs Cloud to change access policy dynamically. Furthermore, relied on security analysis, PPADS is selectively secure under standard model. Finally, the performance comparisons and simulation results demonstrate that PPADS is suitable for PHRs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.145-164
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• 2023

Cloud computing offers a platform that is both adaptable and scalable, making it ideal for outsourcing data for sharing. Various organizations outsource their data on cloud storage servers for availing management and sharing services. When the organizations outsource the data, they lose direct control on the data. This raises the privacy and security concerns. Cryptographic encryption methods can secure the data from the intruders as well as cloud service providers. Data owners may also specify access control policies such that only the users, who satisfy the policies, can access the data. Attribute based access control techniques are more suitable for the cloud environment as they cover large number of users coming from various domains. Multi-authority attribute-based encryption (MA-ABE) technique is one of the propitious attribute based access control technique, which allows data owner to enforce access policies on encrypted data. The main aim of this paper is to comprehensively survey various state-of-the-art MA-ABE schemes to explore different features such as attribute and key management techniques, access policy structure and its expressiveness, revocation of access rights, policy updating techniques, privacy preservation techniques, fast decryption and computation outsourcing, proxy re-encryption etc. Moreover, the paper presents feature-wise comparison of all the pertinent schemes in the field. Finally, some research challenges and directions are summarized that need to be addressed in near future.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권9호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2013

CP-ABE 방식은 신뢰된 서버 없이 접근 제어 메카니즘을 구현할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 권한을 부여받은 사용자가 민감한 데이터에 접근할 수 있도록 CP-ABE 방식으로 속성기반 접근 제어 메카니즘을 제안한다. CP-ABE 개념은 암호문에서 접근 제어 방법을 포함하는 것이다. 만약 사용자가 암호문의 접근 구조를 통해 속성을 가진다면 암호문은 복호될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 CP-ABE 방식이 비단조 접근 구조로 표현됨을 증명하고 다른 CP-ABE 방식들과 성능 비교한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4545-4566
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• 2021

The evolution of IoT technology is having a significant impact on people's lives. Almost all areas of people's lives are benefiting from increased productivity and simplification made possible by this trending technology. On the downside, however, the application of IoT technology is posing some security challenges, among them, unauthorized access to IoT devices. This paper presents an Attribute-based Access Control Fog architecture that aims to achieve effective distribution, increase availability and decrease latency. In the proposed architecture, the main functional points of the Attribute-based Access Control are distributed to provide policy decision and policy information mechanisms in fog nodes, locating these functions near end nodes. To evaluate the proposed architecture, an access control engine based on the Attribute-based Access Control was built using the Balana library and simulated using EdgeCloudSim to compare it to the traditional cloud-based architecture. The experiments show that the fog-based architecture provides robust results in terms of reducing latency in making access decisions.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2768-2780
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• 2019

Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) is one of the practical technologies to share data over cloud since it can protect data confidentiality and support fine-grained access control on the encrypted data. However, most of the previous schemes only focus on data confidentiality without considering data receiver privacy preserving. Recently, Li et al.(in TIIS, 10(7), 2016.7) proposed a CP-ABE with hidden access policy and testing, where they declare their scheme achieves privacy preserving for the encryptor and decryptor, and also has high decryption efficiency. Unfortunately, in this paper, we show that their scheme fails to achieve hidden access policy at first. It means that any adversary can obtain access policy information by a simple decisional Diffie-Hellman test (DDH-test) attack. Then we give a method to overcome this shortcoming. Security and performance analyses show that the proposed scheme not only achieves the privacy protection for users, but also has higher efficiency than the original one.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1832-1853
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• 2018

The personal health record (PHR) system is a promising application that provides precise information and customized services for health care. To flexibly protect sensitive data, attribute-based encryption has been widely applied for PHR access control. However, escrow, exposure and abuse of private keys still hinder its practical application in the PHR system. In this paper, we propose a coordinated ciphertext policy attribute-based access control with user accountability (CCP-ABAC-UA) for the PHR system. Its coordinated mechanism not only effectively prevents the escrow and exposure of private keys but also accurately detects whether key abuse is taking place and identifies the traitor. We claim that CCP-ABAC-UA is a user-side lightweight scheme. Especially for PHR receivers, no bilinear pairing computation is needed to access health records, so the practical mobile PHR system can be realized. By introducing a novel provably secure construction, we prove that it is secure against selectively chosen plaintext attacks. The analysis indicates that CCP-ABAC-UA achieves better performance in terms of security and user-side computational efficiency for a PHR system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1404-1423
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• 2015

In smart grid, electricity consumption data may be handed over to a third party for various purposes. While government regulations and industry compliance prevent utility companies from improper or illegal sharing of their customers' electricity consumption data, there are some scenarios where it can be very useful. For example, it allows the consumers' data to be shared among various energy resources so the energy resources are able to analyze the data and adjust their operation to the actual power demand. However, it is crucial to protect sensitive electricity consumption data during the sharing process. In this paper, we propose a fine-grained access control scheme (FAC) with efficient attribute revocation and policy updating in smart grid. Specifically, by introducing the concept of Third-party Auditor (TPA), the proposed FAC achieves efficient attribute revocation. Also, we design an efficient policy updating algorithm by outsourcing the computational task to a cloud server. Moreover, we give security analysis and conduct experiments to demonstrate that the FAC is both secure and efficient compared with existing ABE-based approaches.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1600-1619
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• 2023

Organizations and other institutions have recently started using cloud service providers to store and share information in light of the Internet of Things (IoT). The major issues with this storage are preventing unauthorized access and data theft from outside parties. The Block chain based Security Sharing scheme with Data Access Control (BSSDAC) was implemented to improve access control and secure data transaction operations. The goal of this research is to strengthen Data Access Control (DAC) and security in IoT applications. To improve the security of personal data, cypher text-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) can be developed. The Aquila Optimization Algorithm (AOA) generates keys in the CP-ABE. DAC based on a block chain can be created to maintain the owner's security. The block chain based CP-ABE was developed to maintain secures data storage to sharing. With block chain technology, the data owner is enhancing data security and access management. Finally, a block chain-based solution can be used to secure data and restrict who has access to it. Performance of the suggested method is evaluated after it has been implemented in MATLAB. To compare the proposed method with current practices, Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) are both used.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권4B호
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• pp.288-299
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• 2012

최근 모바일 클라우드 환경에서 공유되는 데이터의 기밀성과 유연성있는 접근제어를 보장하기 위해서 KP-ABE(Key Policy-Attribute Based Encryption)와 PRE(Proxy Re-Encryption)를 활용한 시스템 모델이 제안되었다. 그러나 기존 방식은 철회된 사용자와 클라우드 서버간의 공모 공격으로 데이터 기밀성을 침해하게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 제안 방식은 클라우드 서버에 저장되는 데이터 파일(data file)을 분산 저장하여 데이터 기밀성을 보장하고 비밀분산(Secret Sharing)를 통해서 프록시 재암호화키에 대한 변조 공격을 방지한다. 그리고 제안방식을 의료 환경에 적용한 프로토콜 모델을 구성한다.