What's New in the Past

July 9, 2010
"Standardization Related Information" was updated. Please see the Standardization Related Information page.
July 9, 2010
"Related Reference List" was updated. Please see the Related Reference List page.
July 9, 2010
Open Hardware IP Core was added to Open Source Applicable to Camellia. Please see the Camellia Source Codes page.
July 9, 2010
"Identification information (OID,TLS ciphersuites)for Camellia" was updated. Please see the Specification for Camellia page.
April 14, 2010
Please note that we will suspend a website from 17:00(JST) on April 28th to 10:00(JST) on May 6th, because of the brownout in our office.
April 13, 2010
Camellia information was updated. Please see the introduction page.
April 13, 2010
NTT joined in the MIT Kerberos Consortium as an executive advisory board. For more information, please see the MIT-KC page.
April 13, 2010
"Standardization Related Information" was updated. Please see the Standardization Related Information page.
April 13, 2010
"Product & User Information" was updated. Please see the Product & User Information page.
April 13, 2010
"Related Reference List" was updated. Please see the Related Reference List page.
October 2, 2009
"Product & User Information" was updated. Please see the Product & User Information page.
October 2, 2009
"Related Reference List" was updated. Please see the Related Reference List page.
July 24, 2009
strongSwan was added to Open Source Applicable to Camellia. Please see the Camellia Source Codes page.
June 12, 2009
Camellia Algorithm number were certified as the IETF for OpenPGP (RFC5581). Please see the Camellia Standardization Related Information page.
May 15, 2009
Camellia Counter mode (CTR) and Camellia CBC-MAC (CCM) mode were certified by IETF (RFC5528). Please see the Camellia Standardization Related Information page.
May 15, 2009
Camellia-CTR and Camellia-CCM were certified as the IETF standard cipher (Proposed Standard) for IPsec (IKEv2, ESP) (RFC5529). Please see the Camellia Standardization Related Information page.
May 15, 2009
IANA has assigned IKEv2 parameters for use with Camellia-CTR and with Camellia-CCM for Transform ID. Please see theSpecifications for Camellia page.
May 15, 2009
Beta of OpenSSL 1.0.0 was released. Camellia becomes enable by default after version 1.0.0 or later.
April 22, 2009
Please note that we will suspend a website from 17:00(JST) on May 1st to 10:00(JST) on May 7th, because of the brownout in our office.
April 22, 2009
"Standardization Related Information" was updated. Please see the Standardization Related Information page.
April 8, 2009
The guidance handbook of "How to construct SSL server using Camellia for SSL communication" was updated to version 2.1. Please see the Open Source page.
February 16, 2009
"Related Reference List" was updated. Please see the Related Reference List page.
January 29, 2009
Package to use Camellia in Ruby was updated to version 1.2 that supported ruby-1.9.1-rc1.
January 22, 2009
Crypto engine for Camellia (Assembly language) was added. Please see the Crypto Engines page.
January 13, 2009
Instructional materials were updated,
please see the Introduction page.
November 7, 2008
"Related Reference List" was updated. Please see the Related Reference List page.
November 7, 2008
October 29, Camellia was added to TAHI Project test tool.
October 28, 2008
Camellia additional patch for TAHI Project test tool was published on "Open Source". Please see the Open Source page.
October 28, 2008
October 2, BouncyCastle 1.41 adopted Java-compliant Camellia engine (version 1.2.0) which is published on this website was released.
October 3, 2008
Package to use Camellia in Ruby was registered at Ruby Application Archive (RAA), RubyForge.
September 12, 2008
Package to use Camellia in Ruby was updated to version 1.1.
September 8, 2008
The guidance handbook of "How to construct SSL server using Camellia for SSL communication" was updated to version 2.0. Please see the Open Source page.
September 8, 2008
Additional patch for BouncyCastle, Java-compliant Camellia engine (mini) (version 1.2.0) was published on "Open Source". Please see the Open Source page.
September 8, 2008
Pascal source by Mr. Wolfgang Ehrhardt was added on "Open Source". Please see the Open Source page.
July 25, 2008
Additional patch for BouncyCastle, Java-compliant Camellia engine (version 1.2.0) was published on "Open Source". Please see the Open Source page.
July 18, 2008
Package to use Camellia in Ruby was published on "Open Source". Please see the Open Source page. "Product & User information" was also updated.
July 18, 2008
NSS (Network Security Services Library) 3.12 (adopted Camellia) was released.
July 18, 2008
The guidance handbook of "How to construct SSL server using Camellia for SSL communication" was updated to version 1.1. Please see the Open Source page.
July 7, 2008
CRYPTREC approved a change in the specification of PSEC-KEM that appears in e-Government Recommended Ciphers List. The change was made in conformity to the ISO/IEC standard.
July 7, 2008
"Standardization Related Information" was updated. Please see the Standardization Related Information page.
June 27, 2008
The latest version of PSEC-KEM Specifications was added. Please see the Specifications for PSEC-KEM page.
June 27, 2008
"Open Source" was updated. Please see the Open Source page.
June 18, 2008
"News Release" was updated. Please see the News Release page.
June 18, 2008
Firefox3 (adopted Camellia) was released.
June 10, 2008
Firefox3 supporting Camellia will be released soon. Mozilla announces the attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records, as the software which is the most frequently downloaded in 24 hours. Please make sure it, too.
May 13, 2008
Email address for inquiries regarding PSEC-KEM was changed. For new email address, please see the Contact for Inquiries page.
May 1, 2008
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (adopted Camellia) was released.
May 1, 2008
Open source page was updated (That is, the version up of Java-compliant engine and addition of Java-compliant engine reducing reserved memory).
April 18, 2008
Please note that we will suspend a website from 18:00(JST) on May 2nd to 10:00(JST) on May 7th, because of the brownout in our office.
March 11, 2008
We received the 53rd Maeshima Award "Development and standardization of Camellia" from TEISHIN association.
February 26, 2008
"Open Source" and "Product & User information" were updated.
January 18, 2008
"Related Reference List" and "Product & User Information" was updated.
December 7,2007
"News Release" was updated. Please see the News Release page.
November 13,2007
"News Release" and "Product & User information" were updated.
November 13,2007
Instructional materials were updated,
please see the Introduction page.
October 19,2007
"Product & User information", "Standardization Related Information" and "Related reference list for ESIGN" were updated.
September 13,2007
We will announce at "Mozilla24 Worldwide Continuous Event"(from Sep. 15th to 16th) hosted by Mozilla Japan that Camellia has been adopted by Firefox.
September 13,2007
"Open Source" and "Product & User information" were updated.
September 4,2007
"Open Source" and "Product & User information" were updated.
September 4,2007
Instructional materials were updated,
please see the Camellia's Introduction page.
July 10,2007
"Open Source" and "Product & User information" were updated.
July 2, 2007
NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories's address was changed. For new address, please see the Introduction page.
June 15, 2007
"News Release" was updated. Please see the News Release page.
June 15, 2007
ISO version of PSEC-KEM Specifications was added. Please see the Specifications for PSEC-KEM page.
June 11, 2007
Camellia is supported as the cipher for SSL communication on our server, supposing that web browsers supporting Camellia appears in the future.
June 11, 2007
Please note that we will suspend our website from June 28th to July 3rd, because of machine maintenance.
June 4, 2007
Please note that we will suspend our website from 10:00(JST) to 18:00(JST) on June 11th, because of machine maintenance.
May 28,2007
Crypto engine for Camellia (C, Gnu Lesser General Public License) was added. Please see the Crypto Engines page.
May 21,2007
The method of mail registration and unsubscription was changed.
May 16,2007
"Open Source" and "Product & User information" were updated.
May 16,2007
The Camellia was adopted in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT. Please see the open source page.
May 10,2007
The Camellia was adopted into Linux kernel 2.6.21. Please see the OpenSource page.
April 11,2007
NTT Group exhibits encryption-related products including Camellia in RSA Conference Japan 2007 which is held from April 25th through 26th, 2007. Please drop by the NTT Exhibition booth when you attend the RSA Conference Japan 2007.
April 11,2007
"Product & User information", "Specifications for Camellia (Identification Information for Camellia)"and "Contact & F.A.Q." were updated.
April 11,2007
Please note that we will suspend a home page from 18:00(JST) on April 27th to 10:00(JST) on May 1st, because of the brownout in our office.
January 16,2007
The engines of Camellia Open Source Software was updated to the latest one Ver1.2.0, please see the OpenSource page.
December 5,2006
[Apology]
This website was unavailable from December 5, 5:00 to December 5, 13:00 due to a equipment failure.
We sincerely apologize to those who tried to access this website for this period.
December 4,2006
The Camellia additional patch for FreeBSD was added to the open source page.
November 13,2006
The Camellia additional patch for Firefox was added to the open source page.
November 8,2006
"News Release" and "Product & User information" were updated.
November 8,2006
Instructional materials were updated,
please see the Camellia's Introduction page.
November 8,2006
The installation manual of patch files for Camellia extensions was added,
please see the OpenSource page.
October 18,2006
Please note that we will suspend a home page form 18:00(JST) on October 20th to 10:00(JST) on 23th, because of the brownout in our office.
October 18,2006
Standardization Related Information was updated.
The Camellia additional patches for Linux and ipsec-tools were added.
October 6,2006
[Apology]
The downloading function of Java encryption engine had been unavailable since Tuesday, July 18th to Friday, Oct 6th, due to a modification mistake of the contents.
We sincerely apologize to those who tried to download the files for this period.
Now that it has been restored, please download if you need.
July 21, 2006
Product information was updated.
July 19, 2006
[Apology]
The downloading function of Camellia Open Source had been unavailable since 15:30 Wednesday, July 5th to 13:10 Tuesday, July 18th, due to a setting mistake of the server system of Camellia.
We sincerely apologize to those who tried to download the file for this period.
Now that it has been restored, please download again if you failed for this period.
July 19, 2006
The engines of Camellia Open Source Software was updated to the latest one Ver1.1.0.
The Camellia additional patch for the OpenSSL equipped with the new engines was also published.For details, please see the OpenSource page.
July 5, 2006
The open source page was updated.
June 10, 2006
Camellia (128-bit, 192-bit, 256-bit key versions) was added to the OpenSSL-0.9.8-stable snap shot and the OpenSSL snap shot(version 0.9.9).
May 30, 2006
We received the 2005 IPSJ Industrial Achievement Award "Development and standardization of Camellia" from the Information Processing Society of Japan.
May 25, 2006
The Camellia additional patch for OpenSSL was added to the open source page.
"Camellia Open Source Software (other individuals or organizations)" and "Specifications for Camellia (OID)" and "Camellia Product" was updated.
April 13, 2006
The "open source software of Camellia" was announced.
"News Release" and "Intellectual Property Information" was updated.
March 16, 2006
PSEC-KEM is adopted for the first time as the ISO/IEC international standard cipher (ISO/IEC18033-2).
February 20, 2006
"Camellia Related Reference List" was updated.
February 1, 2006
"Instructional materials (in Japanese)" and "Related Reference List" and "Summary of the Performance" of Camellia were updated.
December 23, 2005
Camellia was certified as the IETF standard cipher (Proposed Standard) for IPsec (RFC4312).
December 1, 2005
"Camellia Related Reference List" was updated.
"Summary of the Performance" and "Product & User Information" of Camellia was updated.
October 13, 2005
"Product & User Information" of Camellia was updated.
August 2, 2005
On 7 Jul, 2005, Trust-CANP V8.0i, the certification authority product which supports digital signature algorithms ESIGN-TSH developed by NTT, has been certified for ISO/IEC 15408. (IPA Certified/Validated Products List C0028)
July 20, 2005
Camellia was certified as the IETF standard cipher (Proposed Standard) for SSL/TLS cipher suites (RFC4132).
July 20, 2005
"Camellia: 128-Bit Block Cipher - by NTT and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation -" was updated. "Technical Details" was updated.
The clerical error of "Summary of the Performance" was corrected.
June 10, 2005
IANA has assigned class value and indentifier for IPSec to Camellia.
May 26, 2005
Camellia is adopted for the first time as the ISO/IEC international standard cipher (ISO/IEC18033-3).
May 16, 2005
IETF began the final process for publishing the Proposed Standard RFC for adding Camellia to IPsec.
April 19, 2005
Camellia, PSEC-KEM, and ESIGN was certified as the IETF standard (Proposed Standard) for XML security URIs (RFC4051).
March 25, 2005
Homepage was renewed.
Standardization information was added.
Camellia Instructional materials (in Japanese) were added.
January 24, 2005
Camellia was proposed to IETF as a cipher for IPsec.
October 22, 2004
IETF began the final process for publishing the Proposed Standard RFC for adding Camellia to SSL/TLS cipher suites.
June 21, 2004
Camellia was specified as an approved cipher in TV-Anytime Rights Management and Protection Information for Broadcast Applications.
June 10, 2004
IETF began the final process for publishing the Proposed Standard RFC for adding Camellia and PSEC-KEM to XML security URIs.
May 6, 2004
IETF published the technical specification for Camellia (RFC3713).
January 8, 2004
Camellia was certified as the IETF standard cipher (Proposed Standard) of S/MIME (RFC3657).
February 27, 2003
NESSIE project finally selected Camellia and PSEC-KEM as ones of the European recommendation of strong cryptographic primitives.
February 20, 2003
Camellia and PSEC-KEM were included in the list of cryptographic techniques for the use of Japanese e-Government systems, which was published by Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The cryptographic techniques on the said list were selected based on the evaluation results by the Cryptography Research and Evaluation Committees (CRYPTREC).
February 14, 2003
Camellia was specified as a TV-Anytime approved cipher in Bi-directional Metadata Delivery Protection.
September 24, 2001
NESSIE project selected Camellia and PSEC-KEM as ones of the encryption algorithms advancing to the second phase.
April 17, 2001
NTT announced the royalty-free licenses for essential patents of NTT encryption and digital signature algorithms including Camellia and PSEC.

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