• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1343-1356
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• 2013

Cloud computing has emerged as perhaps the hottest development in information technology at present. This new computing technology requires that the users ensure that their infrastructure is safety and that their data and applications are protected. In addition, the customer must ensure that the provider has taken the proper security measures to protect their information. In order to achieve fine-grained and flexible access control for cloud computing, a new construction of hierarchical attribute-based encryption(HABE) with Ciphertext-Policy is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme inherits flexibility and delegation of hierarchical identity-based cryptography, and achieves scalability due to the hierarchical structure. The new scheme has constant size ciphertexts since it consists of two group elements. In addition, the security of the new construction is achieved in the standard model which avoids the potential defects in the existing works. Under the decision bilinear Diffie-Hellman exponent assumption, the proposed scheme is provable security against Chosen-plaintext Attack(CPA). Furthermore, we also show the proposed scheme can be transferred to a CCA(Chosen-ciphertext Attack) secure scheme.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.168-174
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• 2010

User authentication is an important requirement to provide secure network service. Therefore, many authentication schemes have been proposed to provide secure authentication, such as key agreement and anonymity. However, authority of scheme is limited to one's self. It is inefficient when authenticated users grant a certification to other users who are in an organization which has a hierarchical structure, such as a company or school. In this paper, we propose the first authentication scheme to use Attributes-Based Re-encryption that creates a certification to other users with specified attributes. The scheme, which has expanded from Rhee et al. scheme, has optimized computation performance on a smart card, ensuring the user's anonymity and key agreement between users and server.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.648-651
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• 2013

클라우드 시스템에서는 데이터 소유자가 아닌 클라우드 서비스 제공자가 각 개인의 데이터에 대한 저장과 관리를 책임진다. 따라서 클라우드 서버 상의 사용자 데이터에 대한 보안을 보장해 주는 것이 가장 중요한 이슈이다. 데이터 보안 문제는 안전하고 효율적인 접근제어 기술을 통해 해결 할 수 있다. 기존 시스템에서 많이 이용되고 있는 RBAC(Role based access control)은 접근제어의 형태가 주로 수직적이고, 데이터 접근가능 여부를 역할이라는 고정적인 값에 따라 결정하기 때문에 동적인 클라우드 환경에 적합하지 않다. 반면 HASBE(Hierarchical attribute set based encryption) 모델은 ABAC(Attribute based access control)를 통해 유연하고 탄력적인 접근제어를 제공한다. 또한 HASBE 는 인가자(Authority)와 사용자의 관계 모델이 계층적인 구조를 갖고 있기 때문에 큰 조직에서 수많은 사용자들의 데이터 관리와 키 분배를 좀더 효율적으로 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 위의 계층적인 모델에서 더 나아가서, 실제 클라우드 환경에서 데이터가 가질 수 있는 복잡한 속성과 인가자의 관계를 고려해 다중 인가자의 개념이 더해진 모델을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.2550-2572
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• 2023

Epidemiological survey is an important means for the prevention and control of infectious diseases. Due to the particularity of the epidemic survey, 1) epidemiological survey in epidemic prevention and control has a wide range of people involved, a large number of data collected, strong requirements for information disclosure and high timeliness of data processing; 2) the epidemiological survey data need to be disclosed at different institutions and the use of data has different permission requirements. As a result, it easily causes personal privacy disclosure. Therefore, traditional access control technologies are unsuitable for the privacy protection of epidemiological survey data. In view of these situations, we propose a black box-assisted fine-grained hierarchical access control scheme for epidemiological survey data. Firstly, a black box-assisted multi-attribute authority management mechanism without a trusted center is established to avoid authority deception. Meanwhile, the establishment of a master key-free system not only reduces the storage load but also prevents the risk of master key disclosure. Secondly, a sensitivity classification method is proposed according to the confidentiality degree of the institution to which the data belong and the importance of the data properties to set fine-grained access permission. Thirdly, a hierarchical authorization algorithm combined with data sensitivity and hierarchical attribute-based encryption (ABE) technology is proposed to achieve hierarchical access control of epidemiological survey data. Efficiency analysis and experiments show that the scheme meets the security requirements of privacy protection and key management in epidemiological survey.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.7-13
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• 2017

In recent years, cloud computing technology has been socially emerged that provides services remotely as various devices are used. However, there are increasing attempts by some users to provide cloud computing services with malicious intent. In this paper, we propose a property - based multi - level hierarchical approach to facilitate authentication access for users accessing servers in cloud environment. The proposed method improves the security efficiency as well as the server efficiency by hierarchically distributing a set of attribute values by replacing the order of the user 's attribute values in the form of bits according to a certain rule. In the performance evaluation, the proposed method shows that the accuracy of authentication according to the number of attributes is higher than that of the existing method by an average of 15.8% or more, and the authentication delay time of the server is decreased by 10.7% on average. As the number of attributes increases, the average overhead change is 8.5% lower than that of the conventional method.