The Kyungpook National University Mobile Network Security Technology Research Center, established in July 2000 by the Korean Ministry of Information Communication as a university IT research center, is concentrating on the development of information security technology for ubiquitous networks, and the government sponsorship, until 31st Aug 2008, is now entering the third year of the second phase.

Plus, as the ubiquitous network information security industry is relatively new and involves complex technology, joint research with industry is proving to be more successful for the effective development of new technologies, protection of intellectual property, meeting international standards, training special technicians, and increasing international competitiveness.

Led by Professor SangJae, Moon, Kyungpook National University, with research directors HoonJae, Lee, Dongseo University and JaeChul, Ha, Hoseo University, and 12 research assistants pursuing Master/Doctoral degrees.

The main research field is the 'Development of Secure Technology for Ubiquitous Network Wireless Connection', and current activities are focused on: countermeasures against side channel attacks, secure technology for RFID, multicast/broadcast wireless access protocol, and design of link encryptor for ubiquitous environments.

Led by Professor PilJoong Lee, Pohang University of Science & Technology (Postech), with research directors YoungJoo Choi, Postech and KyuongHyun Lee, Bukyong University, and 9 research assistants pursuing Master/Doctoral degrees.

The main research field is the 'Development of Basic Network Security Technology for Ubiquitous Environments', and current activities are focused on: authentication/secret communication mechanisms, ID-based security systems for LANs, and ultra-light cryptography algorithms.

Led by Professor SangUk Kim, Kyungpook National University, with research directors Kiyeong Yu, SeokJu Ko, and ByeoungIn Moon, Kyungpook National University and MinSu Jung, Kyungnam University, plus 25 research assistants pursuing Master/Doctoral degrees.

The main research field is the 'Development of Mobile Device Security Management Technology for Ubiquitous Networks', and current activities are focused on: authentication and secret communication mechanisms, development of SCTP protocol security authentication system, development of security verificator technology and road manager, link encoder implementation technology and middleware development for wireless networks, and development of attack detection and countermeasures for mobile devices.

The Mobile Network Security Technology Research Center (MSRC) at KNU presented 130% more papers, and particularly 163% more SCI/SCIE papers, than the original goals for the last 2 years (2004. 8 ~ 2006.8). Furthermore, MSRC published more than 40 SCI/SCIE papers in international science journals, including Optical Engineering, IEICE Transactions on Communications, IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices, and Systems, and Finite Fields and their Applications. Moreover, many results have been patented and commercialized for regular use, plus MSRC is also in the process of obtaining the rights for technologies and standardizations that were developed for international standardization. The following is a numerical chart of the results.