• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1229-1248
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• 2016

With the feature of convenience and low cost, remote healthcare monitoring (RHM) has been extensively used in modern disease management to improve the quality of life. Due to the privacy of health data, it is of great importance to implement RHM based on a secure and dependable network. However, the network connectivity of existing RHM systems is unreliable in disaster area because of the unforeseeable damage to the communication infrastructure. To design a secure RHM system in disaster area, this paper presents a Secure VANET-Assisted Remote Healthcare Monitoring System (SVC) by utilizing the unique "store-carry-forward" transmission mode of vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). To improve the network performance, the VANET in SVC is designed to be a two-level network consisting of two kinds of vehicles. Specially, an innovative two-level key management model by mixing certificate-based cryptography and ID-based cryptography is customized to manage the trust of vehicles. In addition, the strong privacy of the health information including context privacy is taken into account in our scheme by combining searchable public-key encryption and broadcast techniques. Finally, comprehensive security and performance analysis demonstrate the scheme is secure and efficient.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.4701-4719
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• 2015

A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) consists of mobile nodes which co-operate to forward each other's packets without the presence of any centralized authority. Due to this lack of centralized monitoring authority, MANETs have become vulnerable to various kinds of routing misbehaviour. Sometimes, nodes exhibit non-cooperating behaviour for conserving their own resources and exploiting others' by relaying their traffic. A node may even drop packets of other nodes in the guise of forwarding them. This paper proposes an efficient Reputation and Collaboration technique through route-request for handling such misbehaving nodes. It lays emphasis not only on direct observation but also considers the opinion of other nodes about misbehaving nodes in the network. Unlike existing schemes which generate separate messages for spreading second-hand information in the network, nodes purvey their opinion through route-request packet. Simulation studies reveal that the proposed scheme significantly improves the network performance by efficiently handling the misbehaving nodes in the network.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1744-1765
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• 2014

A client stores data in the cloud and uses remote data checking (RDC) schemes to check the integrity of the data. The client can detect the corruption of the data using RDC schemes. Recently, robust RDC schemes have integrated forward error-correcting codes (FECs) to ensure the integrity of data while enabling dynamic update operations. Thus, minor data corruption can be recovered by FECs, whereas major data corruption can be detected by spot-checking techniques. However, this requires high communication overhead for dynamic update, because a small update may require the client to download an entire file. The Variable Length Constraint Group (VLCG) scheme overcomes this disadvantage by downloading the RS-encoded parity data for update instead of the entire file. Despite this, it needs to download all the parity data for any minor update. In this paper, we propose an improved RDC scheme in which the communication overhead can be reduced by downloading only a part of the parity data for update while simultaneously ensuring the integrity of the data. Efficiency and security analysis show that the proposed scheme enhances efficiency without any security degradation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.2646-2659
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• 2017

Equipped with the advantages of flexible access control and fine-grained authentication, attribute based signcryption is diffusely designed for security preservation in many scenarios. However, realizing efficient key evolution and reducing the calculation costs are two challenges which should be given full consideration in attribute based cryptosystem. In this paper, we present a key-policy attribute based signcryption scheme (KP-ABSC) with delegated computation and efficient key updating. In our scheme, an access structure is embedded into user's private key, while ciphertexts corresponds a target attribute set. Only the two are matched can a user decrypt and verify the ciphertexts. When the access privileges have to be altered or key exposure happens, the system will evolve into the next time slice to preserve the forward security. What's more, data receivers can delegate most of the de-signcryption task to data server, which can reduce the calculation on client's side. By performance analysis, our scheme is shown to be secure and more efficient, which makes it a promising method for data protection in data outsourcing systems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.2416-2432
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• 2017

In this paper, we investigate the security performance for cooperative networks over Nakagami-m fading channels. Based on whether the channel state information (CSI) of wiretap link is available or not, optimal relay selection (ORS) and suboptimal relay selection (SRS) schemes are considered. Also, multiple relays combining (MRC) scheme is considered for comparison purpose. The exact and asymptotic closed-form expressions for secrecy outage probability (SOP) are derived and simulations are presented to validate the accuracy of our proposed analytical results. The numerical results illustrate that the ORS is the best scheme and SRS scheme is better than MRC scheme in some special scenarios such as when the destination is far away from the relays. Furthermore, through asymptotic analysis, we obtain the closed-form expressions for the secrecy diversity order and secrecy array gain for the three different selection schemes. The secrecy diversity order is closely related to the number of relays and fading parameter between relay and destination.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.613-621
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• 2016

Since the error control problem is a critical and sensitive issue in the one-way network, we can adopt a forward error correction code method or data retransmission method based on the response of reception result. In this paper, we propose error control method and continuous data transmission protocol in the one-way network which has unidirectional data transmission channel and special channel to receive only the response of reception result. Furthermore we present data encryption and key update mechanism which is based on the pre-shared key distribution scheme and suggest some ASDU(Application Service Data Unit) formats to implement it in the one-way network.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.5895-5901
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• 2011

This paper shows that a scheme provided by An[7] is not enough to satisfy security requirements for a user certification using a password-based smart card. In order to compensate this weakness, this study provides an improved user scheme with a hash function and ElGamal signature. This new scheme has some advantages protecting password guessing attack, masquerade, and replay attack as well as providing forward secrecy. Compared to An's certification scheme, this scheme suggests that the effect of computational complexity is similar but the efficiency of safety is better.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.504-510
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• 2003

안전한 멀티캐스트란 동적으로 그룹 멤버가 변하는 환경에서는 현재의 그룹 멤버만 데이터를 얻을 수 있도록 멀티캐스트하는 방법을 말한다. 이를 위해 그룹 멤버간에 그룹키를 공유하며, 이 키로 암호화하여 데이터를 멀티캐스트한다. 전방향 안전성(forward secrecy)과 후방향 안전성(backward secrecy)을 제공하기 위해 멤버가 가입하고 탈퇴할 때마다 공유키를 변경해야 한다. 이 때 확장성을 위해 그룹키의 변경이 그룹 전체에 미치는 영향은 최소화되어야 한다. 지금까지의 연구는 확장성 문제를 해결하기 위해 플랫한 그룹키 공유 구조에서 계층 구조로 변화해 왔으며, 그룹의 파티션을 용이하게 하고 중앙집중 방식의 문제를 극복하기 위해 중앙 키 서버를 사용하지 않고 그룹 멤버가 생성한 값을 계산을 통하여 그룹키를 생성하는 프로토콜로 변화해 오고 있다. 하지만 지금까지 제안된 안전한 멀티캐스트 방식은 멤버의 가입은 확장성을 갖추고 있지만 멤버의 탈퇴는 그렇지 못하며, 성능 측면에서 많은 개선이 있었지만 실제 응용에 사용되기에는 아직도 연산 측면에서 적절하지 못하다. 이 때문에 이 논문에서는 실제 응용에서 안전한 멀티캐스트를 효율적으로 사용할 수 있도록 그룹키 분배를 위한 중앙 서버를 사용하지 않는 환경에서 가입과 탈퇴가 일어날 때마다 개별적으로 처리하지 않고 일괄 처리하는 여러 알고리즘을 제안하고 그 성능을 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.393-398
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 사용자 인증에 사용되는 패스워드 검증자의 안전성을 더욱 보강한 새로운 패스워드 검증자 기반 키 분배 프로토콜을 제안한다 기존 패스워드 기반 키 분배프로토콜 방식은 네트워크 상에서 패스워드의 안전한 전송이 어려웠고, 패스워드 파일의 안전한 보호가 어렵다는 문제가 있었다. 이에 패스워드 파일을 그대로 서버에 저장하지 않고 패스워드를 사용하여 생성한 검증자(verifier)를 저장하게 함으로써 패스워드파일을 보다 안전하게 보호할 수 있게 되었으며, 서버가 사용자의 패스워드를 알지 못하더라도 검증자를 사용한 증명방식을 통해 사용자를 인증할 수 있게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 사용자와 서버의 비밀정보로 만든 새로운 형태의 검증자를 사용하고, 사용자는 다른 저장정보 없이 기억하고 있는 ID와 패스워드만을 사용하여 키 분배를 수행하는 패스워드 검증자 기반 키 분배 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안하는 프로토콜의 안전성 분석을 위해 active impersonation과 forward secrecy, man-in-the-middle attack, off-line dictionary attack 등의 공격 모델을 적용하였다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• v.32 no.8_spc
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• pp.1233-1243
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• 2019

Asia hosts more than half of the world's 1 billion goats and is also where domestication of wild goats began. Goats, including dairy goats, are adapted to a wide variety of harsh environments and thus play key roles as providers of nutrition, food security and socio-economic status to their human owners in many low-income Asian countries. In many countries in Southeast and East Asia, medium and large scale commercial dairy goat farming can be profitable enterprises because of the high price of goat milk, and good demand due to its health and medicinal properties. In some Asian countries, dairy goats play important roles in non-commercial activities, including use as educational animals in elementary schools in Japan and show animals in Indonesia. Dairy goat farmers in Asia are faced with numerous challenges, such as a shortage of high producing animals adapted to the local environment, lack of quality feeds during a prolonged dry season, many diseases and difficulty getting their product to market, however, the increasing demand for goat milk in the newly developed and developed economies in Asia provides an optimistic future for dairy goat production in this region.