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Re: ISO rejects WAPI (for now)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Johnston)
Thu Mar 16 10:17:34 2006
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:40:18 -0800
From: David Johnston <dj@deadhat.com>
To: Joachim Strombergson <joachim@strombergson.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Joachim Strombergson wrote:
> Aloha!
>
> I don't know if you have seen this, but ISO rejected the WAPI standard
> proposal, opting instead for 802.11i/WPA2.
>
> http://eet.com/news/design/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502994
>
> How terrible, AES instead of the secret sauce-cipher. ,-)
>
WAPI is no longer secret sausce. It has been published in Chinese,
including the formerly unpublished SMS4 block cipher.
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