Byoungjin Seok, Ph.D.

Research Professor,

BK21 Four R&E Center for Cybersecurity,

Korea University

Address: Room No. 301, International Center for Converging Technology, 145, Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea (02841)

E-mail: bjseok@korea.ac.krsbj7534@gmail.com

About

I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Graduate School of Seoul National University of Science and Technology in 2023. Currently, I am a Research Professor at the Korea University. My research interests are in differential-neural cryptanalysis and AI security.

Education

Mar. 2019 – Feb. 2023  |   Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

Seoul National University of Science and Technology

Thesis title: Towards Effective and Efficient Neural Cryptanalysis: Dataset Generation, Distinguisher Training, and Utilization

Advisor: Prof. Changhoon Lee.


Sep. 2017 – Feb. 2019   |   M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

Seoul National University of Science and Technology

Thesis title: A Study on Optimized Implementation of Lightweight Block Ciphers in IoT Environment

Advisor: Prof. Changhoon Lee.


Mar. 2012 – Aug. 2017  |   B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

Seoul National University of Science and Technology

 Publications

Seok, B., Chang, D., & Lee, C.  (2024). A novel approach to construct a good dataset for differential-neural cryptanalysis, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Early Access.

Seok, B. (2024). Truncated Differential-Neural Key Recovery Attacks on Round-Reduced HIGHT, Electronics, 13(20), 4053.

Seok, B. & Sohn, K. (2024). Adversarial attacks on Pre-trained Deep Learning Models for Encrypted Traffic Analysis, Journal of Web Engineering, 23(6), 749.

Byun, H., Kim, J., Jeong, Y., Seok, B., Gong, S., & Lee, C. (2024). A Security Analysis of Cryptocurrency Wallets against Password Brute-Force Attacks, Electronics, 13(13), 2433.

Eom, H., Seok, B., & Lee, C. (2023). Related-Key Amplified Boomerang Attack on Full-Round MM-128. HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES, 13. 

Seo, S., Seok, B., & Lee, C. (2023). Digital forensic investigation framework for the metaverse. The Journal of Supercomputing, 1-19. 

Tcydenova, E., Seok, B., Cho, M., & Lee, C. (2022, August). Decentralized Access Control for Internet of Things Using Decentralized Identifiers and Multi-signature Smart Contracts. In 2022 International Conference on Platform Technology and Service (PlatCon) (pp. 66-70). IEEE. 

Tran, S. D. P., Seok, B., & Lee, C. (2020). HANMRE-An authenticated encryption secure against side-channel attacks for nonce-misuse and lightweight approaches. Applied Soft Computing, 97, 106663. 

Seok, B., & Lee, C. (2019). Fast implementations of ARX-based lightweight block ciphers (SPARX, CHAM) on 32-bit processor. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 15(9), 1550147719874180. 

Seok, B., Park, J., & Park, J. H. (2019). A lightweight hash-based blockchain architecture for industrial IoT. Applied Sciences, 9(18), 3740. 

Seok, B., Sicato, J. C. S., Erzhena, T., Xuan, C., Pan, Y., & Park, J. H. (2019). Secure D2D communication for 5G IoT network based on lightweight cryptography. Applied Sciences, 10(1), 217.