• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.6177-6200
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• 2018

In order to achieve the goal of protecting medical images, some existing watermark techniques for medical image protection mainly focus on improving the invisibility and robustness properties of the method, in order to prevent unnecessary medical disputes. This paper proposes a novel copyright method for medical image protection based on visual secret sharing (VSS) and cellular automata transform (CAT). This method uses the protected medical image feature as well as VSS and a watermark to produce the ownership share image (OSI). The OSI is used for medical image verification and must be registered to a certified authority. In the watermark extraction process, the suspected medical image is used to generate a master share image (MSI). The watermark can be extracted by combining the MSI and the OSI. Different from other traditional methods, the proposed method does not need to modify the medical image in order to protect the copyright of the image. Moreover, the registered OSI used to verify the ownership and its appearance display meaningful information, facilitating image management. Finally, the results of the final experiment can prove the effectiveness of our method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.4042-4061
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• 2022

Recently, various security threats such as data leakage and data forgery have been possible in the communication and storage of data shared in the cloud environment. This paper conducted a study on the CP-ABSC scheme to solve these security threats. In the existing CP-ABSC scheme, if the data is obtained by the unsigncryption of the data user incorrectly, the identity of the data owner who uploaded the ciphertext cannot be known. Also, when verifying the leaked secret key, the identity information of the data user who leaked the secret key cannot be known. In terms of efficiency, the number of attributes can affect the ciphertext. In addition, a large amount of computation is required for the user to unsigncrypt the ciphertext. In this paper, we propose ECP-ABSC that provides data user traceability, and use it in a cloud environment to provide an efficient and secure data sharing scheme. The proposed ECP-ABSC scheme can trace and verify the identity of the data owner who uploaded the ciphertext incorrectly and the data user who leaked the secret key for the first time. In addition, the ciphertext of a constant size is output and the efficiency of the user's unsigncryption computation were improved.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.2919-2937
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• 2020

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is rapidly developing as a stable and reliable quantum-resistant form of cryptography, throughout the industry. Similarly to existing cryptography, however, it does not prevent a third-party from using the secret key when third party obtains the secret key by deception, unauthorized sharing, or unauthorized proxying. The most effective alternative to preventing such illegal use is the utilization of biometrics during the generation of the secret key. In this paper, we propose a biometric-based secret key generation scheme for multivariate quadratic signature schemes, such as Rainbow. This prevents the secret key from being used by an unauthorized third party through biometric recognition. It also generates a shorter secret key by applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based Confidence Interval Analysis (CIA) as a feature extraction method. This scheme's optimized implementation performed well at high speeds.

• 정보보호학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.42-57
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• 1992

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.531-538
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• 2012

시각암호는 복잡한 암호학적 연산 없이 분산된 영상을 중첩함으로써, 인간의 시각에 의해 비밀영상을 직접 복원할 수 있는 방법이다. 최근까지 시각암호 분야는 크게 복호화 된 영상의 해상도를 향상시키기 위한 비밀 분산법, 분산된 영상의 크기가 변하지 않는 비밀 분산법 그리고 크기조절에 강인한 비밀 분산법 등에 관하여 연구되고 있다. 시각암호 그 자체는 단순히 분산된 영상만 이용하기 때문에 공격받기 쉽다. 따라서 비밀영상을 안전하게 공유할 수 있는 시각암호 구조가 필요하기 때문에 본 논문에서는 실제 사용될 수 있는 기본적인 시각암호 구조에서 커버영상을 이용해 개선된 시각암호 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 커버영상의 변조를 줄임으로써 steganalysis를 어렵게 하여 확률적으로 높은 안전성을 제공한다. 또한 잡음을 생성하지 않고, 비밀영상을 온전히 복원할 수도 있음을 보였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.592-603
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• 2015

In this paper, an optical implementation of a novel asymmetrical cryptosystem combined with D-H secret key sharing and triple DES is proposed. The proposed optical cryptosystem is realized by performing free-space interconnected optical logic operations such as AND, OR and XOR which are implemented in Mach-Zehnder type interferometer architecture. The advantage of the proposed optical architecture provides dual outputs simultaneously, and the encryption optical setup can be used as decryption optical setup only by changing the inputs of SLMs. The proposed cryptosystem can provide higher security strength than the conventional electronic algorithm, because the proposed method uses 2-D array data, which can increase the key length surprisingly and uses 3DES algorithm, which protects against “meet in the middle” attacks. Another advantage of the proposed asymmetrical cryptosystem is that it is free to change the user’s two private random numbers in generating the public keys at any time. Numerical simulation and performance analysis verify that the proposed asymmetric cryptosystem is effective and robust against attacks for the asymmetrical cipher system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.979-989
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• 2015

Recently, Hou and others introduced a (2, n) block-based progressive visual cryptographic scheme (BPVCS) in which image blocks can be gradually recovered step by step. In Hou and others' (2, n)-BPVCS, a secret image is subdivided into n non-overlapping image blocks. When t ($2{\leq}t{\leq} n$) participants stack their shadow images, all the image blocks associated with these t participants will be recovered. However, Hou and others' scheme is only a simple 2-out-of-n case. In this paper, we discuss a general (k, n)-BPVCS for any k and n. Our main contribution is to give two constructions (Construction 1 and Construction 2) of this general (k, n)-BPVCS. Also, we theoretically prove that both constructions satisfy a threshold property and progressive recovery of the proposed (k, n)-BPVCS. For k = 2, Construction 1 is reduced to Hou and others' (2, n)-BPVCS.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2002년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.29 No.1 (A)
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• pp.769-771
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• 2002

임계 암호시스템은 현대 암호학에서 중요한 한 축을 이루는 암호학의 한 분야이다. 본 논문에서는 임계 암호시스템의 근간이 되는 비밀 분산(Secret Sharing)의 한 분야인 (k, n) threshold scheme에서 능동적 비밀 분산 (Proactive Secret Sharing)을 위한 공유(Share)갱신 방법을 개선한 새로운 공유 갱신 방법을 제안한다. 이전 방법은 각 참여자당 O(n$^2$)의 모듈라 멱승 연산을 수행하는데 비하여 제안 방법은 O(n)의 모듈라 멱승 연산만으로 공유갱신이 가능하다. 이와 함께 본 논문에서는 k ＜(1/2)n-1인 경우에 대하여 제안 방법의 안전함을 증명한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권12호
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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.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.95-100
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• 2007

Virtual Reality(VR) data in VR environments like Manufacturing industries are often created jointly by many creators. It is then necessary to provide protection of the joint-creatorship and the creatorship of each participating creator. This paper proposes Multiple Digital Watermarking Framework(MDWF) to solve the problem of joint-creatorship. The proposed framework, MDWF, makes use of 3D private watermarking technology and a novel key sharing protocol for joint-creatorship verification. MDWF embeds 3D private multiple watermarks for the creatorship of each participating creators in a non-overlapping manner during the creation process. After key agreement of all private keys, MDWF embeds an additional 3D private watermark for the joint-creatorship. Therefore MDWF successfully handles the creatorship dispute among creators. That is, each participation creator can prove his/her partial creatorship as well as joint-creatorship by MDWF. In addition, MDWF can solve the collusion problems because shared secret key(SSK) can be made by every users.