Japanese Cryptography Research and Evaluation Committees

Overview
The Japanese Cryptography Research and Evaluation Committees (CRYPTREC) and it is a project to evaluate and monitor the security of e-Government recommended ciphers, as well as to examine the establishment of evaluation criteria for cryptographic modules.

It consists of the CRYPTREC Advisory Board for Cryptographic Technology, which is jointly constituted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI); the Cryptographic Scheme Committee, the Cryptographic Module Committee, and the Cryptographic Operation Committee, which are jointly constituted by the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT) and the Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA).