What's new in the Past

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.

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.

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.

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.

March 16, 2006

PSEC-KEM is adopted for the first time as the ISO/IEC international standard cipher (ISO/IEC18033-2).

April 19, 2005

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

March 25, 2005

Homepage was renewed.

June 10, 2004

IETF began the final process for publishing the Proposed Standard RFC for adding PSEC-KEM to XML security URIs.

February 27, 2003

The NESSIE project announced the final selection of crypto algorithms and PSEC-KEM was included in the NESSIE portfolio recommended cryptographic primitives.

February 20, 2003

PSEC-KEM was 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).

September 24, 2001

PSEC was selected as one of the crypto algorithms for the 2nd phase of the NESSIE project.

April 17, 2001

Announcement of Royalty-free Licenses for Essential Patents of NTT Encryption and Digital Signature Algorithms including PSEC.