• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.881-896
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• 2016

Certificate-based cryptography is a useful public key cryptographic primitive that combines the merits of traditional public key cryptography and identity-based cryptography. It not only solves the key escrow problem inherent in identity-based cryptography, but also simplifies the cumbersome certificate management problem in traditional public key cryptography. In this paper, by giving a concrete attack, we first show that the certificate-based encryption scheme without bilinear pairings proposed by Yao et al. does not achieve either the chosen-ciphertext security or the weaker chosen-plaintext security. To overcome the security weakness in Yao et al.'s scheme, we propose an enhanced certificate-based encryption scheme that does not use the bilinear pairings. In the random oracle model, we formally prove it to be chosen-ciphertext secure under the computational Diffie-Hellman assumption. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme enjoys obvious advantage in the computation efficiency compared with the previous certificate-based encryption schemes. Without costly pairing operations, it is suitable to be employed on the computation-limited or power-constrained devices.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.1C
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• pp.14-21
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• 2011

Cryptographic protocols based on bilinear pairings provide excellent alternatives to conventional elliptic curve cryptosystems based on discrete logarithm problems. Through active research has been done toward fast computation of the bilinear pairings, it is still believed that the computational cost of one pairing computation is heavier than the cost of one ECC scalar multiplication. However, there have been many progresses in pairing computations over binary fields. In this paper, we compare the cost of BLS signature scheme with ECDSA with equvalent level of security parameters. Analysis shows that the cost of the pairing computation is quite comparable to the cost of ECC scalar multiplication for the case of binary fields.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.530-539
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• 2009

In this paper we introduce the notion of certificateless proxy re-encryption which enjoys the advantages of certificateless cryptography while providing the functionalities of proxy re-encryption. We give precise definitions for secure certificateless proxy re-encryption schemes and also present a concrete scheme from bilinear pairing. Our scheme is unidirectional and compatible with current certificateless encryption deployments, In addition, we show that our scheme has chosen ciphertext security in the random oracle model. Finally, we extend the proposed scheme for appling multiple KGC environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.166-170
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• 2010

센서네트워크는 유비쿼터스 환경을 실현할 수 있는 기술로서, 최근 무인 경비 시스템이나 에너지 관리, 환경 모니터링, 홈 자동화, 헬스케어 응용 등과 같은 다양한 응용 분야에 활용되고 있다. 하지만 자신의 정보가 무선통신상에 쉽게 노출됨으로써 도청과 전송 메시지에 대한 위변조, 서비스 거부 공격을 받을 위험이 있다. 더욱이 센서네트워크의 자원 제약성(적은 메모리, 컴퓨팅 성능의 제약)과 키분배 관리의 어려움으로 인해 기존의 공개키, 대칭키 기반의 면안프로토콜을 대체할 수 있는 프로토콜이 필요하다. 그러므로 키분배 관리에 장 접을 가지는 Bilinear map 기반 프로토콜은 적합한 대안이다. 하지만 프로토콜에 사용되는 Pairing연산은 높은 컴퓨팅 성능이 요구된다. 따라서 제한된 성능을 가진 센서상의 구현을 위해서는 Computation Cost를 줄이고 연산 수행 속도를 가속화 할 필요성이 있다. 본 논문에서는 프로토콜 구현에 필요한 Pairing의 핵심 연산인 Multiplication을 대표적인 센서노드 프로세서인 MSP430상에서 최적화 구현함으로써 성능을 개선한다.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.29 no.3_4
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• pp.869-877
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an efficient two-flow zero-knowledge blind identification protocol on the elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) system. A. Saxena et al. first proposed a two-flow blind identification protocol in 2005. But it has a weakness of the active-intruder attack and uses the pairing operation that causes slow implementation in smart cards. But our protocol is secure under such attacks because of using the hash function. In particular, it is fast because we don't use the pairing operation and consists of only two message flows. It does not rely on any underlying signature or encryption scheme. Our protocol is secure assuming the hardness of the Discrete-Logarithm Problem in bilinear groups.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.59-71
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• 2012

PKI-based public key scheme is outstanding in terms of authenticity and privacy. Nevertheless its application brings big burden due to the certificate/key management. It is difficult to apply it to limited computing devices in WSN because of its high encryption complexity. The Bilinear Pairing emerged from the original IBE to eliminate the certificate, is a future significant cryptosystem as based on the DDH(Decisional DH) algorithm which is significant in terms of computation and secure enough for authentication, as well as secure and faster. The practical EC Weil Pairing presents that its encryption algorithm is simple and it satisfies IND/NM security constraints against CCA. The Random Oracle Model based IBE PKG is appropriate to the structure of our target system with one secret file server in the operational perspective. Our work proposes modification of the Weil Pairing as proper to the closed network for secret file distribution[2]. First we proposed the improved one computing both encryption and message/user authentication as fast as O(DES) level, in which our scheme satisfies privacy, authenticity and integrity. Secondly as using the public key ID as effective as PKI, our improved IBE variant reduces the key exposure risk.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.303-309
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• 2009

Cryptographic protocols depend on the hardness of some computational problems for their security. Joux briefly summarized known relations between assumptions related bilinear map in a sense that if one problem can be solved easily, then another problem can be solved within a polynomial time [6]. In this paper, we investigate additional relations between them. Firstly, we show that the computational Diffie-Hellman assumption implies the bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption or the general inversion assumption. Secondly, we show that a cryptographic useful self-bilinear map does not exist. If a self-bilinear map exists, it might be used as a building block for several cryptographic applications such as a multilinear map. As a corollary, we show that a fixed inversion of a bilinear map with homomorphic property is impossible. Finally, we remark that a self-bilinear map proposed in [7] is not essentially self-bilinear.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.355-366
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new blind group identification protocol and a hidden group signature protocol as its application. These protocols involve many provers and one verifier such that (1) the statement of all the provers are proved simultaneously, (2) and also all the provers using computationally limited devices (e.g. smart cards) have no need of computing the bilinear pairings, (3) but only the verifier uses the bilinear pairings. A. Saxena et al. proposed a two-round blind (group) identification protocol in 2005 using the bilinear pairings. But it reveals weakness in the active-intruder attack, and all the provers as well as the verifier must have devices computing bilinear pairings. Comparing their results, our protocol is secure from the active-intruder attack and has more fit for smart cards. In particular, it is secure under only the assumption of the hardness of the Discrete-Logarithm Problem in bilinear groups.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.195-199
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• 2008

We present an attack which forges a credential without the help of the credential issuer in the protocol designed by Nakazato, Wang and Yamamura at ASIAN 2007 The attack avoids using the credential issuer's private key by taking advantage of the property of bilinear pairing. Implication of this collusion attack by user and verifiers also discussed.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1480-1491
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• 2013

Certificate-based cryptography is a new cryptographic primitive which eliminates the necessity of certificates in the traditional public key cryptography and simultaneously overcomes the inherent key escrow problem suffered in identity-based cryptography. However, to the best of our knowledge, all existed constructions of certificate-based encryption so far have to be based on the bilinear pairings. The pairing calculation is perceived to be expensive compared with normal operations such as modular exponentiations in finite fields. The costly pairing computation prevents it from wide application, especially for the computation limited wireless sensor networks. In order to improve efficiency, we propose a new certificate-based encryption scheme that does not depend on the pairing computation. Based on the decision Diffie-Hellman problem assumption, the scheme's security is proved to be against the chosen ciphertext attack in the random oracle. Performance comparisons show that our scheme outperforms the existing schemes.