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March 2026 was an extremely busy month for me, with standards-related meetings including JTC 1/SC44, SC27, and IETF, just among my immediate circle. ISO/IEC JTC 1: There are various things I can't write about regarding ISO, so this is just a brief overview. SC27 (Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy) International Conference: SC27 covers ISMS, cryptography, common criteria, cybersecurity…
Overview On July 24th, Japan time, the first session of the OAuth WG was held at IETF 123 Madrid. The agenda announced in advance was as follows, but a session on AI was inserted after the Chairs update. The following was reported as part of the Chairs Update. Agenda Main Topics The main topics were the OAuth protocol…
Mike Jones and I, credited as co-authors, have published "JSON Web Key (JWK) Thumbprint" as [RFC 7638]. This standard specifies a method for calculating a stable hash value for a JSON Web Key (JWK). Specifically, it specifies which fields of the JWK are used in the hash value calculation, and the canonicality of these fields…
According to TBS News i, the Japanese government will host an international cybersecurity conference in Okinawa Prefecture this November. The conference will take place on November 7th and 8th at a resort hotel in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture. The World Economic Forum, which hosts the Davos Conference, is currently inviting business leaders, companies, and legal experts from around the world to attend. Japanese Minister of State for IT Policy, Yamaguchi, is expected to attend…
It took quite a while, but [1] JSON Web Signature (JWS) and JSON Web Token (JWT) have finally become Standard Track RFCs [2], [RFC7515] and [RFC7519], respectively. For those unfamiliar, JWS is a standard for digitally signing JSON. XML signatures are JSON…
Connecting across silos. The Japan Identity & Cloud Summit 2013, Japan's first identity summit bringing together industry, government, and academia, will be held on March 4th and 5th at the Academic Research Center in Hitotsubashi, Tokyo. As a member of the program committee, I have been involved in program creation for the past few months. The JICS2013 program is impressive. It includes speakers from overseas…
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