After the instance that involved a loss of data after HM Revenue and Customs lost discs containing 25m people’s details in UK, three years collaboration has brought NTT, Hitachi and Tokyo University of Science together to find a better and improved encryption technology for the future.
Among these three, NTT’s will take care of encrypted data distribution to three different locations for safe storage, which is somehow lacking in current system. The total data will be compressed to around two-third the size to save time and money.
Hitachi’s will apply different levels of encryption to different items, and providing sensitive pieces of data, particularly financial information, with larger number of encryption layers.
The second task for Hitachi will be to enable low-power devices like cellphones to apply advanced encryption techniques that are currently the realm of high-end computers. Data like video or online financial transactions or anything that is being transmitted will be provide with considerably more reliable data-protection techniques.
Via: DigitalWorldTokyo
