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Re: Chinese WAPI protocol?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Owen)
Wed Jun 14 21:01:53 2006
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:59:48 -0700
From: "Mike Owen" <kyphros@gmail.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <87irn3edlx.fsf@benpfaff.org>
On 6/14/06, Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 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
For the uspto, yes. For sipo, not necessarily.
Back on topic, for the original fast track proposal, and then the
Chinese followup to the rejection, see the following two links
Proposal
https://committees.standards.org.au/COMMITTEES/I-000/X0001/JTC001-N-7904.pdf
Follow up
http://wapi.org.cn/doc/Analysis%20and%20Rejection%20of%20WAPI%20Ballot%20Comments.pdf
Mike
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