Abstract: An energy storage system includes: a plurality of battery racks including: a plurality of battery modules that are mutually stacked; and a laminar air flow controller provided between the plurality of battery racks or between the plurality of battery modules, and when a thermal runaway situation occurs in at least one battery module among the plurality of battery modules, configured to form a laminar air flow through a predetermined flow between the plurality of battery racks or between the plurality of battery modules.

Abstract: Disclosed are a device and method for managing credentials. In a multi-decentralized identity management service environment, a user can safely manage credentials that have been once issued, and can use the credentials in various user terminals without being redundantly issued credentials.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for issuing delegated credentials between digital wallets possessed by multiple users connected to a Decentralized Identifier (DID) registry through wired/wireless communication. The method includes receiving, by a digital wallet of a first user, a delegated credential issuance request message including a newly created DID document from a digital wallet of a second user, generating, by the digital wallet of the first user, a delegated credential using both the delegated credential issuance request message, received from the digital wallet of the second user, and an original credential, previously issued by the digital wallet of the first user, and transmitting, by the digital wallet of the first user, the generated delegated credential and the original credential, together with a delegated credential registration request message, to the digital wallet of the second user.

Abstract: An anonymous credential authentication system receives an anonymous credential signature value indicating that setting proposition information using a credential is satisfied from a user device that has been issued the credential combined with multiple pieces of attribute information constituting personal information, generates signer authentication information that confirms a signer of the anonymous credential signature value using an opening key, and outputs the signer authentication information.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for managing a history of object owners. The method includes generating, by an object owner history management apparatus, a product registration Verifiable Credential (VC) in a form of a Merkle tree, and registering the product registration VC in a blockchain in order to manage a history of owners of an object, acquiring, by a first user terminal device, the product registration VC from the blockchain and registering a first owner VC, generated based on the product registration VC, in the blockchain to register an ownership of the object, and acquiring, by a second user terminal device, a product transfer Verifiable Presentation (VP) from the first user terminal device and registering a second owner VC, generated based on the product transfer VP, in the blockchain to receive transfer of the ownership of the object.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for managing personal information.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for providing a service using a kiosk by a service providing server by performing the steps of: receiving a device list of at least one kiosk having an ability to provide the service among a plurality of kiosks registered in a blockchain from a kiosk server; authenticating a first kiosk through a smart contract function embedded in the blockchain when a user requests the service through the first kiosk and determining whether the first kiosk is included in the device list; and providing the service to the user when the first kiosk is authenticated by the smart contract function and is included in the device list are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for recommending privacy control. A privacy control server includes multiple common privacy control recommendation models learned based on personal information provision histories of multiple users, a user preference determination unit for generating at least one question item based on the multiple common privacy control recommendation models and determining a privacy control preference of a user based on a result of a user answer to the at least one question item, and a common privacy control recommendation model provision unit for providing a common privacy control recommendation model selected to match the privacy control preference of the user to the user.

Abstract: An anonymous credential authentication system receives an anonymous credential signature value indicating that setting proposition information using a credential is satisfied from a user device that has been issued the credential combined with multiple pieces of attribute information constituting personal information, generates signer authentication information that confirms a signer of the anonymous credential signature value using an opening key, and outputs the signer authentication information.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for user authentication based on multiple pieces of biometric information. The apparatus may include one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program receives multiple pieces of biometric information from the client device of a user, generates the personal identifier of the user using a neural network and a Bloom filter algorithm, and checks the similarity between the personal identifier of the user and each of personal identifiers previously registered in a database, thereby authenticating the user.

Abstract: A transaction information managing system including a plurality of servers and at least one third-party server, wherein the plurality of servers are configured to create, when transactions using the budget of the public organization occurs, a block based on transaction information of the transactions, add the block to the block chain, and share the block chain and the at least one third-party server is configured to perform a mathematical operation to enhance the reliability of the block chain, and a method for managing the transaction information are provided.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for authenticating user using biometric information. The apparatus authenticates the user by performing: generating a first feature vector from first biometric information of the user obtained by the biometric sensor and multiplying the first feature vector by a plurality of pseudo-random number (PRN) matrices, respectively; generating a query template based on an index of an element having a maximum value among elements of a result vector of the multiplication between the first feature vector and the plurality of PRN matrices; and performing authentication for the user by comparing the query template with a pre-stored reference template of a subscribed user.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a terminal apparatus, a server apparatus, and a method for FIDO universal authentication using a blockchain. The method includes sending, by the terminal apparatus, a FIDO service request for any one of FIDO registration, FIDO authentication, and FIDO deregistration for an application service provided by the server apparatus to the server apparatus; verifying, by the blockchain, a FIDO service response message, which is created as a result of local authentication of a user in the terminal apparatus in response to the FIDO service request; and processing, by the server apparatus, the FIDO service request based on whether the FIDO service response message is successfully verified by the blockchain.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for providing a service using a kiosk by a service providing server by performing the steps of: receiving a device list of at least one kiosk having an ability to provide the service among a plurality of kiosks registered in a blockchain from a kiosk server; authenticating a first kiosk through a smart contract function embedded in the blockchain when a user requests the service through the first kiosk and determining whether the first kiosk is included in the device list; and providing the service to the user when the first kiosk is authenticated by the smart contract function and is included in the device list are provided.

Abstract: A facial recognition method and apparatus are provided. The face recognizing apparatus divides an input face image into a plurality of regions, generates a feature vector consisting of real values for each region of the input face image, and generates an image feature vector using the generated feature vectors for each region. In addition, the face recognizing apparatus performs a search for finding whose face image the input face image is by using the image feature vector.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fingerprint recognition are disclosed. The apparatus for the fingerprint recognition may extract a plurality of fingerprint feature points from a fingerprint image and may predetermine a group among the plurality of fingerprint feature points. The apparatus for the fingerprint recognition may also calculate a ridge number between the first fingerprint feature points included in the group and may use the ridge number to generate a ridge count sequence.

Abstract: A face recognition based key generation apparatus controls a key generation model that is formed of a CNN and an RNN to be learned to generate a desired key having a consistent value by using sample facial images of a key owner and a PIN of the key owner as inputs, and the key generation model receives a facial image of the key owner and the PIN of the key owner, as inputs at a desired key generation time, and generates a key.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fingerprint recognition are disclosed. The apparatus for the fingerprint recognition may extract a plurality of fingerprint feature points from a fingerprint image and may configure a group among the plurality of fingerprint feature points. The apparatus for the fingerprint recognition may also calculate a distance value between first fingerprint feature points included in the group and may use the distance value to generate a distance value sequence.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for authenticated key exchange using a password and an identity-based signature, by which robustness is provided in order to prevent a server impersonation attack when a password is exposed, and by which a client may be provided with convenient authentication using an ID and a password.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for recommending privacy control, which includes a relevant information collection unit for collecting relevant information to be used to recommend privacy control in response to a request for personal information of a user from an application; a privacy control recommendation unit for selecting privacy control to be recommended, corresponding to the request for the personal information, from a privacy control pattern of the user using the relevant information; an interface unit for providing an interface that provides information about the request and the recommended privacy control to the user and receives a selection of privacy control from the user; and a privacy control processing unit for processing the personal information of the user depending on the selected privacy control and providing the processed personal information to the application.