| 2025-03-10 | Prof. Sako will serve as a subcommittee member (advisor) for “Cryptography-related Technologies Supporting Secure Data Distribution (Advanced Cryptography),” under the Critical Technologies Development Program in Economic Security (K Program). |
| 2025-03-10 | Prof. Sako participated in the Digital Agency’s “Expert Committee on Governance in the Usage of Verifiable Credential (VC/VDC) (1st meeting)“. |
| 2024-11-21 | DIF Hackathon: Students team from our lab awarded Ontology 2nd Place! |
| 2025-02-04 | “Benchmarking zkVMs: Efficiency, Bottlenecks, and Best Practices” by Masato Tsutsumi from our lab was accepted at ZKProof 7 in Sofia. |
| 2025-01-28 | 9 students from our lab presented at SCIS 2025. |
| 2024-12-12 | Three students from our lab presented a poster titled “Digital Identity Initiatives at Sako Lab” was showcased at the 11th FIDO Tokyo Seminar. |
| 2024-12-12 | A student from our lab participated in the panel discussion titled “From Passkey Hackathon 2024" at the 11th FIDO Tokyo Seminar. |
| 2024-12-12 | Prof. Sako gave a talk “Expectations for FIDO Authentication Initiatives” at the 11th FIDO Tokyo Seminar. |
| 2024-10-25 | At CSS2024, Ken Watanabe from our laboratory presented “Implementation of Secret Key Management Device for Verifiable Credential Holders” and received the CSS Student Paper Award. |
| 2024-10-24 | Invited Lecture by Prof. Sako on the ‘Promote VC rather than SSI/DID’ at CSS2024 Blockchain Workshop. |
| 2024-10-24 | A student team from our laboratory participated at the PWS Cup 2024 and received the Best Presentation Award. |
| 2024-10-23 | At CSS2024 Candle Star Session, a presentation by two students from our laboratory received the Fujitsu Award. |
| 2024-09-01 | We held its summer lab camp at the Karuizawa Seminar House. |
| 2024-06-21 | Passkey Hackathon: Awarded the FIDO Alliance Prize! |
| 2024-07-17 | Our poster titled “Digital Identity Initiatives at Sako Lab” was showcased at MyData Japan 2024 ~MyData by Design~. |
| 2024-04-08 | We held its spring lab camp at the Kamogawa Seminar House. |
| 2024-03-26 | The graduation ceremony was held. |
| 2024-03-18 | A student from our lab gave a presentation at the 104th CSEC Research Presentation Meeting. |
| 2023-12-11 | A student from our lab presented at the 103rd CSEC Research Presentation Meeting |
| 2023-12-03 | DIF Hackathon: 2nd place in the main competition, 1st place in the TBD sponsor category, and 1st place in the Trinsic sponsor category! |
| 2023-09-20 | The Sako Lab held its summer retreat at the Karuizawa Seminar House. |
| 2023-06-19 | We won the poster award at ACNS (Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops). |
| 2023-06-25 | Two students from our lab presented at the 102nd CSEC Research Presentation Meeting. |
| 2022-04-01 | New students joined the laboratory. |
| 2022-03-22 | Prof. Sako gave a talk "Cryptographic protocol technology supporting financial DX" at a webinar ⇱"Sixth Period, The Future Opened up by the Science, Technology and Innovation Basic Plan: Achieving Carbon Neutrality and Financial DX". |
| 2021-10-22 | Prof. Sako gave a ⇱talk (Data, Trust, and Cryptography) at Center for Mathematical Modeling and Data Science,Osaka University. |
| 2021-06-08 | Prof. Sako was appointed as a IPSJ(Information Processing Society of Japan) Director. |
| 2021-07-09 | Prof. Sako was appointed as a ⇱"Study Group on How to Deal with Digital and Decentralized Finance" member. |
| 2021-06-01 | Prof. Sako gave a ⇱lecture at Technical University of Munich. |
| 2021-05-01 | Prof. Sako joined as a Program co-chair of AsiaCCS2022. |
| 2021-04-06 | Prof. Sako joined Caspar Bowden PET Award Committee |
| 2021-03-27 | New students joined the laboratory. |
| 2021-03-23 | The first graduate has left the laboratory. |
| 2021-03-15 | Prof. Sako gave a guest talk at 2021 The Mathematical Society of Japan ANNUAL MEETING. |
| 2020-09-30 | Two new students joined the laboratory. |
| 2020-09-01 | Prof. Sako joined ICRC event ⇱Follow the Sun. |
| 2020-08-23 | Prof. Sako moderated a session at ⇱Blockchain Global Governance Conference . |
| 2020-06-26 | Prof. Sako was appointed as a JSIAM Fellow． |
| 2020-04-30 | A ⇱research proposal(in Japanese) to SCOPE project was accepted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan. |
| 2020-03-26 | The inaugural students were assigned to the laboratory. |
| 2020-03-26 | Open the Sako laboratory. |