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LDP Proposal Warns of 'Eve of a Cyber Emergency,' Calls for Crypto-Asset Tracing and Post-Quantum Cryptography
- The proposal calls for the National Police Agency to take a leading role in joint international investigations with agencies such as the FBI and Europol, actively neutralizing criminal infrastructure like command-and-control servers and tracing illegally obtained crypto assets to deter attacks targeting Japan.
- It urges the National Cyber Office to accelerate the shift to post-quantum cryptography, noting that Western countries plan to migrate high-impact systems by roughly 2030-31 and that Bitcoin's digital-signature scheme faces similar long-term quantum risk; it also calls on the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to speed deployment of quantum key distribution (QKD) combined with PQC for layered protection.
- Other items include establishing direct liaison channels with major US AI firms such as OpenAI and Google to speed vulnerability diagnosis (flagged as the 'Mythos problem' and countered via 'Project YATA-Shield' with the AI Safety Institute), new government pay scales to hire white-hat hackers at market rates, and a Digital Agency review of decentralized IDs (DID) and verifiable credentials (VC) as trust infrastructure ahead of mandatory IC-chip identity checks (e.g., My Number Card) from April 2027.