Live from Tokyo

September 15th, 4:50pm - 5:10pm (PDT)

Video from this session will be streamed online. Check here for your local time.

Overview

Masayuki Kanda of NTT's Information Sharing Platform Laboratories will discuss Camellia, a royalty-free and open source symmetric-key encryption cipher developed in partnership between NTT and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. The Camellia cipher is highly rated by the EU for its high security and efficiency as compared to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher. Camellia is supported by many open source software projects including versions of OpenSSL, FreeBSD, Fedora, GnuPG libgcrypt, ipsec-tools, Linux kernel 2.6.21 and NSS 3.12 (which is scheduled to be incorporated into Firefox 3.0.)

Bio

Masayuki Kanda is a senior researcher at the Information Sharing Platform Laboratories of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). In 1993, he joined NTT to research symmetric-key algorithms at its research laboratory, and played a major role on the development of Camellia. In 2002, he started with the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan as a member of CRYPTREC to create the list of recommended cryptographic techniques for government use.

He earned a BA in 1991, then an MA in 1993 in Engineering, Electricity and Electronics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Kanda then earned his Doctoral degree in Engineering from Yokohama National University. Kanda has been in his present position since 2004. He was a member of CRYPTREC, served on the board of the Japan Society of Security Management, and won the IPSJ Industrial Achievement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 2005.