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New Hitachi tech promises end to personal data leaks

The recent rash of data security breaches in the UK could be avoided in future if the government and civil service there pay attention to a group of new privacy-protection technologies being developed in Japan.

The new methods are the result of a three-year collaboration [Subscription link] between NTT, Hitachi and Tokyo University of Science designed to safely encrypt and transmit personal information and to keep it safe in the event of a catastrophic data loss in one location.

NTT’s contribution is a technique for distributing encrypted data to three different locations for safe storage more efficiently than is currently possible. Instead of sending the total package of data three times, it compresses it all to around two-thirds the size, which can make significant savings in terms of time and money.

Hitachi’s part of the system relies on old-fashioned common sense. It involves applying different levels of encryption to different items. More-sensitive pieces of data, particularly financial information, can be hidden behind more layers of security than matters of public knowledge, such as someone’s name. Simple really.

Lastly, working with the university, Hitachi’s second trick is to enable low-power devices like cellphones to apply advanced encryption techniques that are currently the realm of high-end computers to anything they transmit, whether that’s video or online financial transactions.

Taken together, the entire suite of data-protection techniques promises considerably more peace of mind than does an agency that routinely hands CDs to bike couriers with a simple password written on the disks themselves.

(Crossposted to Tech.co.uk)

12:59 AM J Mark Lytle • Permalink
R&D | Storage
Tagged with: hitachi ntt privacy security tokyo university of science
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• No matter how much money spent for security there will be always some 11 years old geek who is going to break it

  Posted by Shoovi on 07/12/18 at 01:41 AM

• Wouldnt it be nice to see a change in media.. But as Shoovi said security is secutiry, there is always flaw in creation somewhere or some how, but its nice to beed it uop!

  Posted by Scott on 08/02/06 at 11:25 AM

• i totally agree, i don’t think software or data will ever be fully protected.

  Posted by Toshiba HD-A35 on 08/02/06 at 03:05 PM