See http://xkcd.com/c221.html.
Donald
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My personal opinion is that no deliberate weaknesses were introduced.
More likely there might have been a Chinese image at some level that
they would run the CA for all the WAPI certificates, at least those used
in China.
Donald
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no problem , Don
probably my mac woudn t see such page... (!?!!?) Pat (Mexico)
On 13 juin 06, at 18:40, Eastlake III Donald
The whole WAPI situation is much more complicated than the secrecy or
openness of the SMS4 algorithm. For the view from IEEE 802.11, see
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/WAPI/wapi-documents.html.
Generally speaking, China seems to like 802.16 (WiMax), which is based
on the cell phone model wi