• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권11호
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• pp.110-116
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• 2023

Data confidentiality refers to the characteristic that information kept undisclosed or hidden from unauthorized parties. It considered a key security requirement in current supply chain management (SCM) systems. Currently, academia and industry tend to adopt blockchain and IoT technologies in order to develop efficient and secure SCM systems. However, providing confidential data sharing among these technologies is quite challenging due to the limitations associated with blockchain and IoT devices. This review paper illustrates the importance of preserving data confidentiality in SCM systems by highlighting the state of the art on confidentiality-preserving methodologies in the context of blockchain based IoT-SCM systems and the challenges associated with it.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.1096-1097
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• 2007

We address the data confidentiality for wireless broadband (WiBro) networks. In WiBro, as the channel is wireless in nature, it suffers from passive and active attack. Passive attack, for example is to decrypt traffic based on statistical analysis and active attack is to modify traffic or inject new traffic from unauthorized mobile stations. Due to high mobility, frequent session key distribution is a bottleneck for the mobile stations. In aspect of WiBro, there is a communication between mobile station to base station, and also in mobile station to mobile station. It is expected to ensure data confidentiality while maintaining minimum overhead for the resource constrained mobile stations. In this paper, we proposed a security framework based on the concept of hyper-encryption to provide data confidentiality for wireless broadband networks.

• 연구윤리
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

Purpose: Poor anonymity and confidential strategies by a researcher not only develop unprecedented and precedented harm to participants but also impacts the overall critical appraisal of the research outcomes. Therefore, understanding and applying anonymity and confidentiality in research is key for credible research. As such, this research expansively presents the importance of anonymity and confidentiality for research surveys through critical literature reviews of past works. Research design, data and methodology: This research has selected the literature content approach to obtain proper literature dataset which was proven by high degree of validity and reliability using only books and peer-reviewed research articles. The current authors have conducted screening procedure thoroughly to collect better fitted resources. Results: Research findings consistently mentioned the confidentiality and anonymity principles are preserved and implemented as a means of protecting the privacy of all individuals, establishing trust and rapport between researchers and study participants, as a way of critically upholding research ethical standards, and preserving the integrity of research processes. Conclusions: Confidentiality and anonymity are research ethical principles that help in providing informed consent to participants assuring subjects of the privacy of their personal data. As provided by research bodies and organizations, every research process has to incorporate the principles to meet credibility.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.49-60
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• 2023

The amount of data generated by electronic systems through e-commerce, social networks, and data computation has risen. However, the security of data has always been a challenge. The problem is not with the quantity of data but how to secure the data by ensuring its confidentiality and privacy. Though there are several research on cloud data security, this study proposes a security scheme with the lowest execution time. The approach employs a non-linear time complexity to achieve data confidentiality and privacy. A symmetric algorithm dubbed the Non-Deterministic Cryptographic Scheme (NCS) is proposed to address the increased execution time of existing cryptographic schemes. NCS has linear time complexity with a low and unpredicted trend of execution times. It achieves confidentiality and privacy of data on the cloud by converting the plaintext into Ciphertext with a small number of iterations thereby decreasing the execution time but with high security. The algorithm is based on Good Prime Numbers, Linear Congruential Generator (LGC), Sliding Window Algorithm (SWA), and XOR gate. For the implementation in C, thirty different execution times were performed and their average was taken. A comparative analysis of the NCS was performed against AES, DES, and RSA algorithms based on key sizes of 128kb, 256kb, and 512kb using the dataset from Kaggle. The results showed the proposed NCS execution times were lower in comparison to AES, which had better execution time than DES with RSA having the longest. Contrary, to existing knowledge that execution time is relative to data size, the results obtained from the experiment indicated otherwise for the proposed NCS algorithm. With data sizes of 128kb, 256kb, and 512kb, the execution times in milliseconds were 38, 711, and 378 respectively. This validates the NCS as a Non-Deterministic Cryptographic Algorithm. The study findings hence are in support of the argument that data size does not determine the execution.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.37-50
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• 2022

Modern supply chains include multiple activities from collecting raw materials to transferring final products. These activities involve many parties who share a huge amount of valuable data, which makes managing supply chain systems a challenging task. Current supply chain management (SCM) systems adopt digital technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain for optimization purposes. Although these technologies can significantly enhance SCM systems, they have their own limitations that directly affect SCM systems. Security, performance, and scalability are essential components of SCM systems. Yet, confidentiality and scalability are one of blockchain's main limitations. Moreover, IoT devices are lightweight and have limited power and storage. These limitations should be considered when developing blockchain-based IoT-SCM systems. In this paper, the requirements of efficient supply chain systems are analyzed and the role of both IoT and blockchain technologies in providing each requirement are discussed. The limitations of blockchain and the challenges of IoT integration are investigated. The limitations of current literature in the same field are identified, and a secure and scalable blockchain-based IoT-SCM system is proposed. The proposed solution employs a Hyperledger fabric blockchain platform and tackles confidentiality by implementing private data collection to achieve confidentiality without decreasing performance. Moreover, the proposed framework integrates IoT data to stream live data without consuming its limited resources and implements a dualstorge model to support supply chain scalability. The proposed framework is evaluated in terms of security, throughput, and latency. The results demonstrate that the proposed framework maintains confidentiality, integrity, and availability of on-chain and off-chain supply chain data. It achieved better performance through 31.2% and 18% increases in read operation throughput and write operation throughput, respectively. Furthermore, it decreased the write operation latency by 83.3%.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.364-374
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• 2022

Health information systems (HIS) are facing security challenges on data privacy and confidentiality. These challenges are based on centralized system architecture creating a target for malicious attacks. Blockchain technology has emerged as a trending technology with the potential to improve data security. Despite the effectiveness of this technology, still HIS are suffering from a lack of data privacy and confidentiality. This paper presents a blockchain-based data storage security architecture integrated with an e-Health care system to improve its security. The study employed a qualitative research method where data were collected using interviews and document analysis. Execute-order-validate Fabric's storage security architecture was implemented through private data collection, which is the combination of the actual private data stored in a private state, and a hash of that private data to guarantee data privacy. The key findings of this research show that data privacy and confidentiality are attained through a private data policy. Network peers are decentralized with blockchain only for hash storage to avoid storage challenges. Cost-effectiveness is achieved through data storage within a database of a Hyperledger Fabric. The overall performance of Fabric is higher than Ethereum. Ethereum's low performance is due to its execute-validate architecture which has high computation power with transaction inconsistencies. E-Health care system administrators should be trained and engaged with blockchain architectural designs for health data storage security. Health policymakers should be aware of blockchain technology and make use of the findings. The scientific contribution of this study is based on; cost-effectiveness of secured data storage, the use of hashes of network data stored in each node, and low energy consumption of Fabric leading to high performance.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.439-444
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 위치기반 스마트 관광 서비스를 이용하는 사용자들의 개인 정보 중에서 위치정보를 보호하기 위한 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 프라이버시 보호 기법은 첫째, 사용자와 관광 서버간에 정보 교환없이 OTK(One Time Key)인 공유 비밀키를 생성하고, 이 공유 비밀키로 데이터를 암호화하여 전달함으로써 사용자와 관광 서버 사이의 메시지 기밀성을 제공한다. 둘째, 사용자와 관광 서버는 사용자 ID, 로그인 시간(timestamp), 그리고 랜덤하게 생성된 난수를 연접하고 해시함수로 해싱하여 OTK를 생성하고, 이 OTK와 XOR 연산을 이용하여 사용자의 위치 정보와 질의어를 암호화하여 전송하므로 사용자와 관광 서버 사이의 메시지 기밀성을 제공한다. 셋째, OTK에 타임스탬프를 추가하여 메시지 재전송공격을 방지한다. 그 결과, 제안하는 개인 프라이버시 보호 기법은 데이터의 기밀성과 사용자의 프라이버시 보호를 제공할 뿐만 아니라 사용자의 위치정보와 행동 패턴 데이터의 안전성도 보장할 수 있다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to transform patient care by enhancing data collection, analysis, and management through medical sensors and wearable devices. However, the convergence of IoT device vulnerabilities and the sensitivity of healthcare data raises significant data integrity and privacy concerns. In response, this research introduces the Smart-Coord system, a practical and affordable solution for securing healthcare IoT. Smart-Coord leverages blockchain technology and coordinate-based access management to fortify healthcare IoT. It employs IPFS for immutable data storage and intelligent Solidity Ethereum contracts for data integrity and confidentiality, creating a hierarchical, AES-CBC-secured data transmission protocol from IoT devices to blockchain repositories. Our technique uses a unique coordinate system to embed confidentiality and integrity regulations into a single access control model, dictating data access and transfer based on subject-object pairings in a coordinate plane. This dual enforcement technique governs and secures the flow of healthcare IoT information. With its implementation on the Matic network, the Smart-Coord system's computational efficiency and cost-effectiveness are unparalleled. Smart-Coord boasts significantly lower transaction costs and data operation processing times than other blockchain networks, making it a practical and affordable solution. Smart-Coord holds the promise of enhancing IoT-based healthcare system security by managing sensitive health data in a scalable, efficient, and secure manner. The Smart-Coord framework heralds a new era in healthcare IoT adoption, expertly managing data integrity, confidentiality, and accessibility to ensure a secure, reliable digital environment for patient data management.

• 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.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2012

클라우드 스토리지는 사용자들로 하여금 저장장치를 소유하는 대신 서비스의 형태로 빌려서 사용하고 사용량만큼만 비용을 지불하게 하므로 자체 데이터 센터를 유지하는 것보다 유리한 측면이 많이 있다. 그렇지만 공용 클라우드로 스토리지를 서비스하면 사용자 데이터에 대한 접근을 소유자가 통제하기 어렵기 때문에 데이터에 대한 기밀성을 보장하지 못하는 문제가 발생된다. 본 논문에서는 공용 클라우드 스토리지에 저장되는 사용자 데이터에 대하여 기밀성을 보장하기 위한 목적으로 클라우드와 사용자 사이에 동작하는 게이트웨이를 제안한다. 이 게이트웨이는 사용자의 개입없이 데이터를 암호화 혹은 복호화하여 전달하며, 다른 게이트웨이를 통한 접근을 보장할 수 있도록 암호 키를 교환하는 기능도 제공한다. 제시된 방법을 상용 클라우드 서비스에서 시험한 결과 안전성과 호환성을 만족할 수 있음을 확인하였다.