What's New in the Past

July 9, 2010

"Standardization Related Information" was updated. Please see the Standardization Related Information

July 9, 2010

"Related Reference List" was updated. Please see the Related Reference List

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

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.

December 25, 2009

The Camellia additional patch for MIT Kerberos was added to the open source page. Please see the Camellia Source Codes 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 the Specifications 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 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.

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" and "Standardization Related Information" 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 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 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 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 from 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.

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.

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 was certified as the IETF standard cipher (Proposed Standard) for XML security URIs (RFC4051).

March 25, 2005

Homepage was renewed. 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 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

Added "EU NESSIE project announces final selection of crypto algorithms".

February 27, 2003

Added "Camellia was included in the list of cryptographic techniques for the use of Japanese e-Government systems".

February 14, 2003

Camellia was specified as a TV-Anytime approved cipher in Bi-directional Metadata Delivery Protection.

January 6, 2003

Added the notice to Sample Code.

February 19, 2002

The full paper "Camellia: A 128-Bit Block Cipher Suitable for Multiple Platforms" was updated.

February 19, 2002

TV-Anytime Forum was added as a standardization effort related to Camellia.

January 25, 2002

A group picture of the Camellia team was added :-)

April 17, 2001

Added News Release "Announcement of Royalty-free Licenses for Essential Patents of NTT Encryption and Digital Signature Algorithms".

January 14, 2001

Added Abstract of Camellia.

December 29, 2000

Added How to Use Camellia Web Site.

December 22, 2000

Added citation of "Performance Evaluation of AES/DES/Camellia On the 6805 and H8/300 CPUs".

November 29, 2000

Added Yiqun's evaluation report (A Note on the Block Cipher Camellia).

November 29, 2000

Added Knudsen's evaluation report (Analysis of Camellia).

November 29, 2000

Added NESSIE submission package.

November 22, 2000

Added 48th IETF meeting report.

November 15, 2000

Added many publications.

October 12, 2000

Added Submission Documents to IPA.

September 7, 2000

Added a link to Internet-Draft for Camellia.

September 5, 2000

Added SAC 2000 paper.

August 30, 2000

Cited ISEC meeting paper presented May 2000.

August 11, 2000

Publication page was separated from welcome page.

August 10, 2000

Added presentation slides.

August 9, 2000

Added IETF presentation slides.

August 1, 2000

The archive file for Camellia specification was separated into PS file and PDF file.

July 31, 2000

Camellia home page started.