CRYPTREC was initially an abbreviation of Cryptography Research and Evaluation Committee, which was set up in 2000 by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan) for the purpose of evaluating cryptographic techniques to assure their security for e-Government applications. However, since the CRYPTREC Advisory Committeewas founded by MPHPT (Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, Japan) and METI in 2001 to perform a policymaking study on the application of cryptographic techniques, it has been interpreted as the name of the organization of committees involved in the project for evaluation of cryptographic techniques available for the Japanese e-Government. The project itself is now referred to as CRYPTREC. From 2000 to 2002 the main goal of CRYPTREC was to publish a list of recommended ciphers for e-Government use. In March 2003 the list was published and established as the guiding principle in the usage of cryptographic techniques in the...
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Imai, H., Yamagishi, A. (2005). Cryptrec. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23483-7_91
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