Forwarded from: matthew patton <pattonme@private> <quote> While any Chinese company that has been approved to produce commercial encryption products can apply for the rights to license WAPI, the Chinese government will not grant licensing rights to foreign companies, Li said. Existing regulations do not permit foreign companies to have access to commercial encryption technology used in China, she said. "This will add cost to end users but considering the higher safety the new standard provides, it is acceptable," Li said. </quote> I'm surprised I haven't seen some real flack over this. if wifi was so bad the right way to fix it's security is to work thru the committees so that all would benefit. Given that China is a communist and repressive regime and not exactly a champion of free thought and political expression coupled with the above details that the technology is and will remain proprietary and closely held among presumably loyal Chinese companies anyone want to guess how "secure" their protocol really is? I say it's probably easily compromised so that the gov't can snoop trivially. I'm surprised the Western media isn't scoffing openly at the Chinese disengenous position. Do they really think we're that dumb? And there might be an even more crass angle - by refusing to license an international standard they don't have to pay anybody any money for it, AND the force the suppliers to pay to play. Why did we ever give these fools most favored trading status? I'm not plugged into the Chinese dissident movement but I sure hope they use ISAKMP/IKE from the likes of OpenBSD to do their security and simply not use wifi or this other thing. ===== "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." Ephesians 4:32 Hurt and disappointment enter every marriage from time to time. When this happens, we choose to either forgive or develop resentment. Love will not last if we do not learn to forgive. - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomo@private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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