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China Touts Its Own Wireless Encryption Standard

An AP newswire article by Joe McDonald, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

China has revived its effort to promote its own encryption standard for wireless communications, unveiling a 22-member alliance of leading Chinese computer and telecommunications firms to encourage its use, a media report said Wednesday.

Beijing caused an uproar last year when it tried to compel computer and telecom companies to use its standard, known as WAPI. It dropped that in a deal with Washington last April after foreign companies complained it would hurt their access to China's markets.

It wasn't clear from the report in the official China Daily newspaper what specific measures the new government-backed alliance had adopted, or whether the effort would include any regulatory requirements to use the WAPI standard.

posted by Fergie @ 3/08/2006 11:46:00 AM