[NEWS] China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks

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| China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks |
| from the that's-one-way-to-get-what-you-want dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 25, @17:47 (Wireless Networking|
| http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/25/1321259 |
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[0]Ant writes "A CommsDesign article reports that [1]China walked out of a wireless standards meeting this week, accusing the [2]International Organization for Standardization of favoring the [3]IEEE's 802.11i [4]ANSI-certified wireless LAN security scheme over its own controverisal proposal, [5]EE Times has learned. The gambit came after China's Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) security scheme was withdrawn and placed on a slower track by the ISO." From the article:
"China initially agreed last year to refrain from making its WAPI security scheme mandatory for wireless LAN equipment in China. It then approached ISO with a fast-track submission in an effort to make WAPI an international security standard."

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Links:
0. http://aqfl.net
1. http://www.commsdesign.com/news/sho...R4CIB5GQSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=60403226
2. http://www.iso.org/
3. http://www.ieee.org/
4. http://www.ansi.org/
5. http://www.eetimes.com/

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Mr.Guvernment said:

Well you know, China being one of the number 1 warez countries with like a %90 rate of illeal software - they need thr security so the world cant see all the illegal stuff they are using.

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Mr.Guvernment said:

Well you know, China being one of the number 1 warez countries with like a %90 rate of illeal software - they need thr security so the world cant see all the illegal stuff they are using.

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