• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.533-543
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• 2008

With technological advances for storage volume size of a semiconductor memory, USB storage is made as products to support a high capacity storage. Hereby, consumers discard pint-sized USB storages which they already had, or do not use them efficiently. To integrate and unify these pint-sized USB storages as one big USB storage, we proposed Sigma Hub. It can be grouping multiple USB storages, which have each different volume size of memory storage, as logical unity Storage through USB Hub. The proposed Sigma Hub includes Sigma Controller as a core management module to unify the multiple USB storages in transaction level layer. Sigma controller can efficiently control transaction packet in Sigma Hub through a USB Storage-Integration algorithms which ensure an integrity for data read and write processes. Consequently, Sigma Hub enables the use of USB storage that is logical unity.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.39-45
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• 2010

Because of portable storage device's technical improvement, it's speeding up the conversion of mass storage. It means it's easier to move and save data. Generally, USB is using for portable storage device and forensic perspective, it's possible us to study data drain through portable storage device under securement of using vestige of USB. If we can secure using vestige of USB from boot domain it's possible to investigate data drain & prove criminal act. This thesis is suggesting Key/Thumb drive & USB Drive Enclosure's confirmation of using or not and division way though Disk Signature analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.97-99
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• 2002

최근 PC 시장은 USB라는 새로운 인터페이스의 보급으로 이용한 장치들이 급속도로 증가하고 있다. 또한 USB를 이용하여 저장 장치를 접근할 수 USB Mass Storage는 디지털 카메라나 MP3 Player 등에서 빠른 전송속도와 편리함 때문에 각광 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 운영 체제인 iRTOS$^{TM}$에서 USB 인터페이스를 이용한 USB Mass Storage가 가능하도록 설계하고 이를 구현한 내용을 기술한다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.175-184
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• 2010

This paper designs a virtual USB drive for mobile devices which gives an illusion of a traditional USB flash memory drive and provides capacity-free storage space over IP network. The virtual USB drive operating with a S3C2410 hardware platform and embedded linux consists of USB device driver, an iSCSI-enabled network stack, and a seamless USB/iSCSI tunneling module. For performance enhancement, it additionally provides a kernel-level seamless USB/iSCSI tunneling module and data sharing with symbol references among kernel modules. Experiments reveal that the kernel-level implementation can improve the I/O performance up to 8 percentage, as compared with the user-level implementation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.01a
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• pp.365-367
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 USB의 분실 및 도난과 같은 취약점과 데이터의 유출로 인한 피해를 해결하기 위해 USB에 지문인식 장치를 결합한 지문인식 USB를 연구하여, 기존의 지문인식 USB보다 지문 인식률을 높임으로 오류를 줄여 장점을 키우고 일반인이 사용하기 쉽도록 등록방식을 변환한 지문인식 USB를 설계하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.607-615
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• 2015

Mosts user of internet and smart phone has certificate, and uses it when money transfer, stock trading, on-line shopping, etc. Mosts user stores certificate in a hard disk drive of PC, or the external storage medium. In particular, the certification agencies are encouraged for user to store certificate in external storage media such as USB memory rather than a hard disk drive. User think that the external storage medium is safe, but when it is connect to a PC, certificate may be copied easily, and can be exposed to hackers through malware or pharming site. Moreover, if a hacker knows the user's password, he can use user's certificate without restrictions. In this paper, we suggest secure management scheme of the private key file using a password of the encrypted private key file, and a USB Memory's hardware information. The private key file is protected safely even if the encrypted private key file is copied or exposed by a hacker. Also, if the password of the private key file is exposed, USB Memory's container ID, additional authentication factor keeps the private key file safe. Therefore, suggested scheme can improve the security of the external storage media for certificate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.947-952
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• 2012

The technology suggested in this study is the method to contain executable software in a portable storage devices like the USB and install an application program to operate it in any client devices. To solve this problem, we can store pre-scanned information on the above client's files, registry, and services in the device before installing the proper application program to be installed using the scanning method and manage in the USB the resources that generated and changed by post-scanning the information after installing the above application program in the client's device. After that, necessary files in the client to be used can be copied for using, and after use, related files are deleted, and it also includes the process to return to the previous system environment. This method is advantageous in that once any sort of application programs needed to be installed gets to be installed in an external portable storage devices like the USB, the application program installed can be operated in any computer not raising any issues like illegal copy.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.12
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• pp.944-953
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• 2013

Recently, a storage media is becoming smaller and storage capacity is also becoming larger than before. However, important data was leaked through a small storage media. To solve these serious problem, many security companies manufacture secure USBs with secure function, such as data encryption, user authentication, not copying data, and management system for secure USB, etc. But various attacks, such as extracting flash memory from USBs, password hacking or memory dump, and bypassing fingerprint authentication, have appeared. Therefore, security techniques related to secure USBs have to concern many threats for them. The basic components for a secure USB are secure authentication and data encryption techniques. Though existing secure USBs applied password based user authentication, it is necessary to develop more secure authentication because many threats have appeared. And encryption chipsets are used for data encryption however we also concern key managements. Therefore, this paper suggests mutual device authentication based on PUF (Physical Unclonable Function) between USBs and the authentication server and key management without storing the secret key. Moreover, secure USB is systematically managed with metadata and authentication information stored in authentication server.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.111-113
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• 2021

USB storage devices, which are represented by removable storage media, are widely used even nowadays when cloud services are common. However, since they are cases where hidden areas are created and exploited in USB storage devices. This research is needed to detect and analyze them from an Anti-forensic point of view. In this paper, we analyze a program that can be exploited as Anti-forensic because it can create a hidden partition and store files there, and the file system created by it from a digital forensic point of view.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1345-1354
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• 2012

The modern society with the wide spread USB memory, witnesses the acceleration in the development of USB products that applied secure technology. Secure USB is protecting the data using the method as device-based access control, encryption of stored files, and etc. In terms of forensic analyst, to access the data is a lot of troubles. In this paper, we studied software-based data en/decryption technology and proposed for analysis mechanism to validation vulnerability that secured on removable storage media. We performed a vulnerability analysis for USB storage device that applied security mechanism. As a result, we found vulnerabilities that extracts a source file without a password.