• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.157-158
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• 2013

Data privacy and access control policies in computer clouds are a prime concerns while talking about the sensitive data. Authorized access is ensured with the help of secret keys given to a range of valid users. Granting the role access is a trivial matter but revoking user access is tricky and compute intensive. To revoke a user and making his data access ineffective the data owner has to compute new set of keys for the rest of effective users. This situation is inappropriate where user revocation is a frequent phenomenon. Time based revocation is another way to deal this issue where key for data access expires automatically. This solution rests in a very strong assumption of time determination in advance. In this paper we have proposed a mutable encryption for oblivious data access in cloud storage where the access key becomes ineffective after defined number of threshold by the data owner. The proposed solution adds to its novelty by introducing mutable encryption while accessing the data obliviously.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.1638-1648
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• 2005

The SEM approach to PKl offers several advantages, such as immediate revocation of users' signing ability without CRLs and compatibility with the standard RSA. However, it has a weakness against denial of service attack caused by breaking down or being compromised. G. Vanrenen et al. proposed a distributed SEM approach to overcome the weaknesses. However, it does not provide the desirable properties such as instant availability and immunity against denial of service attack, due to inadequate usage of threshold cryptography and proactive secret sharing. In this paper, we point out its structural contradictions and propose a modified version of distributed SEM approach.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.31-42
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• 2001

Two important requirements in broadcast encryption schemes are traitor traceability and revocability. In this paper, we propose a new type of a traitor tracing scheme that can revoke an unlimited number of traitors\` personal keys. Additionally, we propose an efficient and simple method to provide self-enforcement property. We also describe a variant of our scheme of which encryption algorithm is secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.781-793
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• 2014

A Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is security standards to manage and use public key cryptosystem. A PKI is used to provide digital signature, authentication, public key encryption functionality on insecure channel, such as E-banking and E-commerce on Internet. A soft-token private key in PKI is leaked easily because it is stored in a file at standardized location. Also it is vulnerable to a brute-force password attack as is protected by password-based encryption. In this paper, we proposed a new method that detects private key compromise and is probabilistically secure against a brute-force password attack though soft-token private key is leaked. The main idea of the proposed method is to use a genuine signature key pair and (n-1) fake signature key pairs to make an attacker difficult to generate a valid signature with probability 1/n even if the attacker found the correct password. The proposed method provides detection and notification functionality when an attacker make an attempt at authentication, and enhances the security of soft-token private key without the additional cost of construction of infrastructure thereby extending the function of the existing PKI and SSL/TLS.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.143-152
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• 2008

Sensor networks have a wide spectrum of military and civil applications, particularly with respect to security and secure keys for encryption and authentication. This thesis presents a new centralized approach which focuses on the group key distribution with revocation capability for Wireless Sensor Networks. We propose a new personal key share distribution. When utilized, this approach proves to be secure against k-number of illegitimate colluding nodes. In contrast to related approaches, our scheme can overcome the security shortcomings while keeping the small overhead requirements per node. It will be shown that our scheme is unconditionally secure and achieves both forward secrecy and backward secrecy. The analysis is demonstrated in terms of communication and storage overheads.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.176-180
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an efficient authentication protocol based on certificateless signature scheme, which does not need any infrastructure to deal with certification of public keys, among the vehicles in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks. Moreover, the proposed protocol introduces the concept of interval signature key for efficiently solving the problem of certificate revocation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 1998.12a
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• pp.9-20
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• 1998

공개 키 암호 알고리듬은 사용자의 공개키가 그 사용자와 대응되는지 를 확인할 수 있는 방법이 필요하다. 이를 해결하기 위해 사용자들이 신뢰할 수 있는 인증기관에서 각 사용자의 공개키의 확인서를 발급한다. 그러나 비밀키의 노출, 사용자의 자격의 박탈 및 유효기간의 만료 등으로 인하여 확인서를 취소하여야 할 경우가 있다. 따라서 각 사용자는 상대방의 공개키가 유효한 것인지를 확인하여야 한다. 본 고에서는 지금까지 제시된 공개키 확인서의 취소 여부를 확인하는 방법들을 분석하고 효율적인 방법을 제시한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.901-923
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• 2017

Efficient key distribution and management mechanisms as well as lightweight ciphers are the main pillar for establishing secure wireless sensor networks (WSN). Several symmetric based key distribution protocols are already proposed, but most of them are not scalable, yet vulnerable to a small number of compromised nodes. In this paper, we propose an efficient and scalable key management and distribution framework, named KMMR, for large scale WSNs. The KMMR contributions are three fold. First, it performs lightweight local processes orchestrated into upward and downward tiers. Second, it limits the impact of compromised nodes to only local links. Third, KMMR performs efficient secure node addition and revocation. The security analysis shows that KMMR withstands several known attacks. We implemented KMMR using the NesC language and experimented on Telosb motes. Performance evaluation using the TOSSIM simulator shows that KMMR is scalable, provides an excellent key connectivity and allows a good resilience, yet it ensures both forward and backward secrecy. For a WSN comprising 961 sensor nodes monitoring a 60 hectares agriculture field, KMMR requires around 2.5 seconds to distribute all necessary keys, and attains a key connectivity above 96% and a resilience approaching 100%. Quantitative comparisons to earlier work show that KMMR is more efficient in terms of computational complexity, required storage space and communication overhead.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.145-164
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• 2023

Cloud computing offers a platform that is both adaptable and scalable, making it ideal for outsourcing data for sharing. Various organizations outsource their data on cloud storage servers for availing management and sharing services. When the organizations outsource the data, they lose direct control on the data. This raises the privacy and security concerns. Cryptographic encryption methods can secure the data from the intruders as well as cloud service providers. Data owners may also specify access control policies such that only the users, who satisfy the policies, can access the data. Attribute based access control techniques are more suitable for the cloud environment as they cover large number of users coming from various domains. Multi-authority attribute-based encryption (MA-ABE) technique is one of the propitious attribute based access control technique, which allows data owner to enforce access policies on encrypted data. The main aim of this paper is to comprehensively survey various state-of-the-art MA-ABE schemes to explore different features such as attribute and key management techniques, access policy structure and its expressiveness, revocation of access rights, policy updating techniques, privacy preservation techniques, fast decryption and computation outsourcing, proxy re-encryption etc. Moreover, the paper presents feature-wise comparison of all the pertinent schemes in the field. Finally, some research challenges and directions are summarized that need to be addressed in near future.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.863-874
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• 2021

Distributed key generation (DKG) with trustless setup is a cryptographic protocol that distributes Shamir secret shares of a private key to participants while keeping the actual private key hidden to the participants. Also, by extending it to a threshold signature protocol, digital signatures can be generated without construction of private keys. This paper proposes a recovery protocol maintaining trustless setup assumptions, in particular to the useful (1,3) share structure. The proposed protocol meets same levels of security requirements with DKG in terms of correctness and secrecy. The protocol can also enable delegation and revocation of digital sign rights for blockchain-based asset management.