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| China: rejection of our wireless standard is a U.S. 'conspiracy' | |
| 2006-05-29 | |
| The agency promoting China's wireless encryption standard has accused a U.S. engineers' group of waging a conspiracy that led a global organization to reject the Chinese system, the country's official news agency said Monday. China made the accusation in its appeal against the International Standards Organization's decision in March to reject its encryption system, known as WAPI, the Xinhua News Agency said. Wireless encryption helps protect the privacy of wireless Internet users in places like coffee shops and universities. China has been trying to promote its own standards for mobile phones, wireless encryption and other related fields, hoping they will give Chinese companies an advantage in promising industries. The Geneva-based International Standards Organization in March rejected China's WAPI in favor of the widely used 802.11i encryption standard, developed by the U.S.-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. China has asked the International Standards Organization to nullify its decision due to what it calls the engineer group's "unethical activities," such as allegedly conspiring against WAPI, insulting China, and using intimidation and threats, Xinhua reported, without elaborating. "The serious violations are rare in ISO's standardization history," Xinhua quoted a statement by the official China Broadband Wireless IP Standard Group as saying. It said the IEEE unfairly violated International Standards Organization rules and misled national agencies, causing them to reject the Chinese standard, Xinhua said. ISO has said it will investigate the case, Xinhua reported. China dropped an effort last year to make WAPI its mandatory national standard after the U.S. government complained that doing so would hamper access to China's market for foreign companies. However, Xinhua said after the ISO rejection in March that China's government would "firmly support" the Chinese standard, and the decision would not affect its decision on domestic use.
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #8 IOW, the Chicoms are outdated/obsolete before they even started. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-29 23:58 |
| #7 China files case against Intel's wireless network China has launched a case against American chipmaker Intel's near-monopoly on encryption standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment, state press reported Monday. China has accused the makers of the technology developed by the chipmaking giant Intel of unethical behaviour and has asked the International Standards Organization (ISO) to review the case, Xinhua news reported. It says that the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), actual makers of the technology, broke ISO rules when its national bodies voted on new technology to mend security loopholes in the WLAN standard. China now wants the ISO to investigate the fast-track process to determine "whether the ethical and procedural rules and principles have indeed been violated and whether the ballots have been unfairly influenced by those ethical and procedural violations". China's WAPI and American IEEE applied to the ISO for a new international standard last October, but the Chinese technology's bid for approval was rejected in a ballot in March this year. "The serious violations are rare in ISO's standardization history," said the statement, adding that IEEE "unjustly" and "unfairly" violated ISO rules which misled many national bodies that voted on the new international standard. ISO will investigate the case, the report said. China has bristled at depending on proprietary foreign high technology and in 2003 tried to force multinationals wanting to sell wireless computer equipment to support its proprietary and secret encryption standard called WAPI. Beijing was forced to scrap its plans for the system when companies such as Intel threatened to stop selling their products in China, claiming they would have to give up intellectual property rights to Chinese companies. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-05-29 23:35 |
| #6 'conspiracy' 'conspiracy' 'conspiracy' The ROW needs to eat this constant BS. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-05-29 22:28 |
| #5 Drum roll....The new Sony Playstation 3 will have IEEE 802.11b/g! |
| Posted by: Jumble Thromomble5864 2006-05-29 21:44 |
| #4 Unless WAPI becomes an open standard, like AES - a public algorithm, available for study and attack attempts - it has no chance. Back doors are too detectable, by the way. If there's a deliberate flaw, it will be considerably more subtle. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-05-29 12:30 |
| #3 Let's see...Chinese standard vs. IEEE standard. Hmm... conspiring against WAPI, insulting China, and using intimidation and threats What's it called when you can't help but see your own qualites in others? Projection? |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-05-29 11:53 |
| #2 it includes a 128-bit key length version of AES which they believe the NSA has the ability to decipher ANYBODY with enough computing power can break 128-bit AES ... it's been done IIRC in France with a network of cooperating PCs. The question is, can it be done quickly enough, often enough, to compromise privacy. And the answer is, for the most part, no. If there's a message we are determined to break and it is deemed sufficiently important to decode it, yes, it can be done. But the chinese can do the same if they are sufficiently determined. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-05-29 11:19 |
| #1 "I learned recently that the Chinese object to 802.11i because it includes a 128-bit key length version of AES which they believe the NSA has the ability to decipher. The corresponding problem with WAPI is that it is a proprietary protocol controlled by the government which leads one to believe that it has either a back-door or a weak known flaw in it that would allow interception." http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004907.html |
| Posted by: Peppersniffer 2006-05-29 09:57 |