KAWASAKI, Japan, Apr 19, 2024 – (JCN Newswire) – – Fujitsu right this moment introduced the event of a brand new expertise that can allow Japanese firms to extra simply take part in European Information Areas, which kind a digital framework for cross-company knowledge sharing throughout completely different industries.
To confirm the brand new expertise, which converts company digital id credentials, Fujitsu carried out a expertise trial as Architectural Examine, as a part of the World PoC for Catena-X, an information house for the automotive trade.Throughout the trial, Fujitsu contributed the brand new expertise into Tractus-X (1), an open-source venture utilized by Catena-X.As a part of the trial, Fujitsu created a hypothetical case examine wherein Japanese firms to take part in a European knowledge house, by conducting authentication in a simulated gBizID (2) system atmosphere. Because of the trial, Fujitsu confirmed that it’s the first on the earth to efficiently connect with the Information House constructed utilizing Tractus-X. NTT Communications Company (3) supported with the OSS survey as a part of the trial.
Fujitsu will current the outcomes of the trial of the ?Catena-X? initiative at its showcase for Hannover Messe 2024, held in Germany from April 22 to April 26, 2024. Throughout the occasion, Fujitsu will additional introduce options for the completely different phases of the manufacturing course of (planning, design, manufacturing, and administration), together with sensible inspection options and assistive applied sciences that help sustainable transformation for manufacturing prospects.
Background
Within the European automotive trade, consortia together with Catena-X began to develop knowledge areas to share info on carbon footprints and knowledge within the automotive provide chain, following a wider trade pattern of sharing knowledge in frequent with different firms whereas defending knowledge sovereignty of every taking part firm.
For firms from completely different international locations and industries to simply and securely interconnect within the Information House, nonetheless, each the event of guidelines and pointers in addition to dependable interoperability amongst members pose an ongoing problem. Whereas the verification of the authenticity of firms utilizing credentials issued by an present belief service represents an essential step in direction of safe and trusted knowledge sharing, completely different international locations and industries make the most of completely different codecs, protocols, and verification processes, which made it troublesome for Japanese firms, for instance, to take part simply in these frameworks (4).
Concerning the newly developed expertise
Fujitsu has developed a expertise that addresses these challenges with the next distinctive features and traits:
1. Perform for credential conversionFunction that allows conversion of credentials from the issuing celebration?s format to the receiving celebration?s required format2. Perform for protocol conversionFunction to transform protocols between completely different interplay mechanisms3. Perform for authenticity confirmationFunction to confirm the authenticity of the data of an organization related to an information house to make sure that the corporate info is freed from forgeries and errors earlier than and after conversion
As a part of the brand new expertise, Fujitsu created and verified a solution to convert company credentials created utilizing OpenID Join (OIDC) (6), a extensively used authentication mechanism in Japan and all over the world, into Verifiable Credentials (VC). Utilizing this implementation, Fujitsu confirmed profitable connection to an information house constructed utilizing Tractus-X in a state of affairs the place a Japanese firm utilizing gBizID authentication connects to a European knowledge house, a world first.
When a Japanese firm connects to an information house utilizing VCs, the expertise converts authentication info into VCs if the corporate is licensed as genuine by a company credential issuing group for Japanese firms. The transformed VC may be offered to the European knowledge house to finish the corporate verification and to connect with the info house. As soon as related, knowledge suppliers and knowledge customers within the knowledge house can trade VCs and knowledge after verifying one another?s authenticity.
Future Plans
Transferring ahead, Fujitsu goals to determine and standardize superior belief expertise utilizing this trial to construct a system that makes it simpler for non-European firms to take part in European knowledge areas similar to Catena-X. On this means, Fujitsu goals to allow a reliable world the place firms can trade knowledge in a safe and reliable means.As a part of its imaginative and prescient for Fujitsu Uvance, which goals to comprehend a sustainable world, Fujitsu will proceed to advance its Hybrid IT initiatives, connecting the world seamlessly and safely with digital infrastructure to comprehend a related society.
[1] Tractus-X :Official open supply for constructing Catena-X knowledge house elements beneath Eclipse, an OSS.
[2] gBizID :A standard authentication system for Japanese firms and sole proprietors.
[3] NTT Communications Company :Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan; President and CEO: Toru Maruoka
[4] Frameworks :Japanese firms planning to affix the European Information House for instance must use a European belief service resulting from a scarcity of appropriate mechanisms on the Japanese facet. The so-called gBizID system created and operated by the Japanese Digital Company that permits customers to log in to a number of authorities companies with a single ID and password represents one other methodology of verifying an organization’s legitimacy in Japan.Firms connecting to European Information Areas are additionally more and more specializing in verifiable credentials (VC: a digital credential that shops private and enterprise info), that conform with the open requirements of the World Broad Internet Consortium. Nonetheless, Japanese methods similar to gBizID don’t help VCs, and variations in verification strategies typically hindered Japanese firms in taking part in European Information Areas.
[5] JWT :JSON Internet Token, a format for securely sending and receiving info in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Standardized in RFC7519.
[6] OpenID Join :A system for authenticating a number of companies utilizing the identical person ID and password primarily based on person consent. A person’s authentication info is registered with an ID supplier prematurely, and a token issued on the time of login is handed to the service, in order that the service can be utilized.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu?s objective is to make the world extra sustainable by constructing belief in society by way of innovation. Because the digital transformation accomplice of selection for patrons in over 100 international locations, our 124,000 staff work to resolve a few of the best challenges dealing with humanity. Our vary of companies and options draw on 5 key applied sciences: Computing, Networks, AI, Information & Safety, and Converging Applied sciences, which we carry collectively to ship sustainability transformation. Fujitsu Restricted (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of three.7 trillion yen (US$28 billion) for the fiscal yr ended March 31, 2023 and stays the highest digital companies firm in Japan by market share. Discover out extra: www.fujitsu.com.
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