1.1.4: e-Government

Improving e-Government Security and Reliability

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The government pursues an ongoing e-Government policy through the computerization of administrative work, which was until now paper-based, and is using IT for various procedures and information dissemination. Given the nature of the data handled, e-Government requires the strictest security and reliability to protect valuable information on citizens. As such, IPA jointly operates a project with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and other institutions to examine and evaluate encryption technology, and has published the e-Government Recommended Ciphers List, a list of usable encryption technology for e-Government. The encryption technology on this list-the security of which is constantly monitored by the project-can also be used by corporate and other users as information security measures for their IT systems.

Stakeholder(s):

• Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications


• Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

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