On March 19, 1999, ISEC announced new program, "Open-Type IT Security Invitation Program", to invite public proposals regarding research and development of basic technology and software to assure IT security. This program is to provide financial support for personnel expenditure by government subsidies. We closed the registration on April 15 after we received 33 applications. The following 5 projects has been qualified by the IT Security Activities Promotion Committee on June 2. The achievements of these projects will be published and distributed in open source style.
| Proposed Theme | Contract with |
|---|---|
| An Anti-Virus System with Simple Verification Protocol and Tracable Authentic Antecedents | Prime: Cooperate with: |
| Electronic voting system using polling stations | NTT Advanced Technology Corporation |
| Feasibility study on log analysis and management for open distributed computing | Asgent Inc. (Japanese) |
| Study on highly sensitive illegal accesses detection and global alarm system | Prime: Cooperate with: |
| Proposed Theme | Contract with |
|---|---|
| The Standard of Information Security for Japanese Government | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. |