• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.61-72
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• 2009

To guarantee security between the tag and back-end server and implementation efficiency in low power tag, we propose two typed mutual authentication protocols in RFID system. One is static-ID authentication scheme which is well suitable in distributed server environments. The other is dynamic-ID scheme which is additively satisfied forward security. In proposed scheme, it does not need any random number generator in tag and requires only one(maximally three) hash operation(s) in tag or server to authenticate each other. Furthermore, we implement the proposed schemes in RFID smart card system and verify its normal operations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.71-80
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• 2005

In the near future, various aplications on the Internet will be based on the multicast group communication, so that the efficient group key management is essential for managing the frequent group join and leave events. In this paper, we propose several batch rekeying schemes extended from conventional individual rekeying schemes, and analyze the efficiencies of them in terms of both the number of encryption and one-way hash function as well as multicast message size. Considering multiple member leaves, a probabilistic approach is need to compute the average computational amounts for rekeying.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2006

Recently, Sun et el. proposed a three-party authenticated key exchange protocol using the public key of the server and the derived verifier from the Password of a user. This paper proposes a password-based three-party authenticated key exchange protocol using smartcards. Since the proposed protocol has very low computation cost by using XOR and hash function operation instead of the public key operation, and reduces the count of message transmission to 20% compared with the protocol of Sun et el., it can execute an effective authenticated key exchange. Furthermore, the proposed protocol is safe from password guessing attack by not saving passwords in the server, and it is also safe from server compromise attack because the server cannot know the shared session key between the two users.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.27-33
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• 2011

At FDTC'05 and CISC-W'10, the authors showed that if they decrease the number of rounds of AES and Triple-DES by using the fault injections, it is possible to recover the secret key of the target algorithms, respectively. In this paper, we propose a key recovery attack on HMAC by using the main idea of these attacks. This attack is applicable to HMAC based on MD-family hash functions and can recover the secret key with the negligible computational complexity. Particularly, the attack result on HMAC-SHA-2 is the first known key recovery attack result on this algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.11-18
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• 2013

In order to prevent tampering and reverse engineering of executive code, this paper propose a new tamper resistant software mechanism. This paper presents a cryptographic MAC function and a relationship which has its security level derived by the importance of code block instead of by merely getting the encryption and decryption key from the previous block. In this paper, we propose a cryptographic MAC function which generates a dynamic MAC function key instead of the hash function as written in many other papers. In addition, we also propose a relationships having high, medium and low security levels. If any block is determined to have a high security level then that block will be encrypted by the key generated by the related medium security level block. The low security block will be untouched due to efficiency considerations. The MAC function having this dynamic key and block relationship will make analyzing executive code more difficult.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.3-13
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• 2004

Kvarnstrom et al. ${in}^{[10]}$ proposed a rule protection scheme by using one-way hash function to protect rules in security systems over ubiquitous environment. Son et at. ${in}^{[5-6]}$ also prooposed a rule protection scheme for Snort, which is one of the most common IDS. These schemes provide security only for the header information but not for its contents. To solve this problem, this paper presents a scheme based on the symmetric cryptosystem over Snort not only for the header information but also contents. This paper uses the key management based on PCMCIA security module proposed ${by}^{[12]}$ for the symmetric cryptosystem. Our scheme could be adjusted to other security systems, which use the rule based detection.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.79-84
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• 2018

Cloud services are readily available through a variety of media, attracting a lot of attention from users. However, there are various security damages that abuse the privacy of users who use cloud services, so there is not enough technology to prevent them. In this paper, we propose a protection model to safeguard user's privacy in a cloud environment so as not to illegally exploit user's privacy. The proposed model randomly manages the user's signature to strengthen the role of the middle manager and the cloud server. In the proposed model, the user's privacy information is provided illegally by the cloud server to the user through the security function and the user signature. Also, the signature of the user can be safely used by bundling the random number of the multiplication group and the one-way hash function into the hash chain to protect the user's privacy. As a result of the performance evaluation, the proposed model achieved an average improvement of data processing time of 24.5% compared to the existing model and the efficiency of the proposed model was improved by 13.7% than the existing model because the user's privacy information was group managed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.63-74
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• 2009

In 2005, Wang et al. discovered devastating collision attacks on the main hash functions from the MD4 family. After the discovery of Wang, many analysis results on the security of existing hash-based cryptographic schemes are presented. At CRYPTO'07, Fouque, Leurent and Nguyen presented full key-recovery attacks on HMAC/NMAC-MD4 and NMAC-MD5[4]. Such attacks are based on collision attacks on the underlying hash function, and the most expensive stage is the recovery of the outer key. At EUROCRYPT'08, Wang, Ohta and Kunihiro presented improved outer key recovery attack on HMAC/NMAC-MD4, by using a new near collision path with a high probability[2]. This improves the complexity of the full key-recovery attack on HMAC/NMAC-MD4 which proposed by Fouque, Leurent and Nguyen at CRYPTO'07: The MAC queries decreases from $2^{88}$ to $2^{72}$, and the number of MD4 computations decreases from $2^{95}$ to $2^{77}$. In this paper, we propose improved outer key-recovery attack on HMAC/NMAC-MD4 with $2^{77.1246}$ MAC queries and $2^{37}$ MD4 computations, by using divide and conquer paradigm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.2029-2036
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• 2015

Hadoop MR(MapReduce) uses a partition function for passing the outputs of mappers to reducers. The partition function determines target reducers after calculating the hash-value from the key and performing mod-operation by reducer number. The legacy partition function doesn't divide the job effectively because it is so sensitive to key distribution. If the job isn't divided effectively then it can effect the total processing time of the job because some reducers need more time to process. This paper proposes the VPT(Virtual Partition Table) and has tested appling the VPT with a preponderance of data. The applied VPT improved three seconds on average and we figure it will improve more when data is increased.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.113-124
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• 2002

Proposals for a password-based authenticated key exchange protocol that have been published so far almost concentrated on the provable security. But in a real environment such as mobile one, efficiency is a critical issue as security. In this paper we discuss the efficiency of PAK which is secure in the random oracle model ［l］. Among 4 hash functions in PAK the instantiation for $H_1$, which outputs a verifier of the password, has most important effect on the computational efficiency. We analyze two different methods for $H_1$ suggested in ［1］ and we show that $H_{lq}$ has merits in transforming to EC or XTR variants as well as in the efficiency. As an efficient variant. we propose PAK2-EC and PAK2-XTR which do not require any additional step converting a hash output into a point of elliptic curve or XTR subgroup when compared to the previous work on the PAK［2］. Finally we compare PAK2 with the password-based authenticated key exchange protocols such as SPEKE, SRP, and AMP.