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Re: Chinese WAPI protocol?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Pfaff)
Wed Jun 14 17:33:07 2006

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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Date:  Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:33:46 -0700
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David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> The specification is secret and confidential.  It uses the SMS4
> block cipher, which is secret and patented. [*]

"Secret" and "patented" are mutually exclusive.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
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