Research Projects
Secure Services
- Secure Authentication Methods on the Internet
- Countermeasures for Human Errors
- Error Correcting Codes - mathematics for information reliability
Control System and Hardware Security
- Securing Control Systems
- SBD - Security Barrier Device
- White-list Access Control
- Hypervisor
- Hardware security evaluation
- SASEBO/ZUIHO/MiMICC - side-channel attack evaluation boards
- PUF - Physically Unclonable Functions for preventing fake hardware
Development of Secure Software
- Designing secure software
- Calot (FOT): Test design assistance using feature analysis
- SENS: Design language for system tests
- CONPASU: Analysis and assistance tool for concurrent program designs
- Modbat: A model-based tester
- Implementing secure software
- Automatic generation and test for communication protocol implementations
- Ensureing/verifying software safety
- Enforcing secure software execution
- Software security using programming language-based techniques (Fail-Safe C etc.)
- Virtualization techniques for software reliability
Innovative Security Technologies for the Next Generation
- More reliable security proofs for cryptographic technologies
- Design and analysis of highly functional cryptographic primitives
- Privacy-preserving database search
Major Joint-Research Partners
- Alpha Systems Inc.
- STRL, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
- LE Tech Co., Ltd.
- Okayama University
- OMRON Corporation
- Keio University
- Kobe University
- Science Park Corporation
- Computational Biology Research Center, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Sony Corpporation
- Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
- Chiba University
- Chuo University
- The University of Electro-communications
- ECSEC (Electronic Commerce Security Technology Research Association)
- TOKAIRIKA, Co., Ltd.
- Tokyo Electron Device Ltd.
- The University of Tokyo
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
- TOSHIBA CORPORATION
- Toshiba Semiconductor and Storage Company
- Tohoku University
- West Japan Railway Company
- Panasonic Corporation
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States of America
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Yahoo! Japan, Inc.
- Ritsumeikan University
- Renesas Electronics Corporation
Major Recent External Research Fundings
- Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry
- 基準認証研究開発委託事業
- 次世代高信頼・省エネ型IT基盤技術開発・実証事業（再委託）
- Supporting Industry Project (戦略的基盤技術高度化支援事業)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
- SCOPE (Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme)
- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- A-STEP: Adaptive and Seamless Technology transfer Program through target-driven R&D
- SICORP: Strategic International Collaborative Research Program
- Japan-India
- Japan-France
- CREST (Core Research of Evolutional Science and Technology)
Past Projects and Research Theme
Please also refer to RCIS and CVS research projects pages, too.