(转贴) 中国政府推出自己的无线网络加密标准

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http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=3793/\r\n\r\nChina networks to use domestic encryption \r\n  \r\nThe China Post\r\n12/05/2003\r\n \r\nChina has ordered computer makers, both at home and overseas, to use its own encryption standard for wireless local area networks, ensuring stronger government control and giving domestic manufacturers a slight respite from some foreign competition.\r\nThe new rules, which took effect on Monday, ban the importation and sale of all equipment used in wireless LANs — so called Wi-Fi services increasingly used to provide Internet connections in public spaces such as hotels, cafes and airports — that does not comply with China\'s new standard.\r\n\r\nProducts contracted, imported or produced prior to the ban\'s effective date were given a six-month grace period, according to government notices posted on the Web site of the China Broadband Wireless IP Standard Workteam — the group responsible for drawing up the new standard.\r\n\r\nBy setting a compulsory encryption standard that ensures government access to all operating systems, regulators are asserting control over a telecommunications medium that by its very open nature is viewed as suspect, said Duncan Clark, managing director of BDA China Ltd., a Beijing-based Internet consulting firm.\r\n\r\n\"Maybe they\'re concerned that their own so-called secure government networks could be vulnerable,\" Clark said. \"Wi-Fi is fundamentally hackable. They want to ensure some control.\"\r\n\r\nChinese manufacturers lag behind in wireless technology and the government also did not want them to be in the passive position of having to follow, or pay patent fees on, standards set overseas, said Robin Ji, sales manager of Network Associates Inc. (Shanghai), an Internet security company.\r\n\r\n\"This time, Chinese companies have grabbed the initiative,\" Ji said.\r\n\r\nThe China Broadband Wireless IP Standard Workteam, a group of companies and researchers based in universities in the north central city of Xi\'an, drew up standards for encryption and decryption last May. The National Standardization Commission issued the decree making them compulsory.\r\n\r\nExact details of the encryption standard were not immediately available. However, an executive at Legend (Beijing), China\'s leading computer maker and a member of the work team, said the encryption method required applies to terminal equipment.\r\n\r\n\"International security standards are widely acknowledged to be inadequate,\" said Hu Xiangyu, Legend\'s senior manager for strategic cooperation in Beijing. \"We just added another layer and made it more complete.\"\r\n\r\nThose working in the industry said they expected the new standard to give Chinese wireless equipment makers, many of whom are just starting out, at least a temporary advantage over established vendors that may need to retool or withdraw products from the market.\r\n\r\n\"Local wireless LAN equipment suppliers will save time on catching up with international makers of the same equipment because they can just follow the standard in developing their equipment,\" said Simon Shen, director of WinPro Information Engineering Co., a Shanghai-based sales agent for Lucent Technologies.\r\n\r\nStill, Shen said he didn\'t expect the new standards to make a very big difference.\r\n\r\nOthers questioned whether the standards would actually be enforced.\r\n\r\nIn October 1999, importers were ordered to provide extensive information about Web servers and other computers with encryption technology, and to replace any software rejected by the government with Chinese products.\r\n\r\nAfter several months of heated protests from foreign manufacturers, the government announced that telephones, Internet browsers or computer operating systems would be exempted from the rules.\r\n\r\nMobile phone radiation standards were similarly loosened.\r\n\r\n\"We\'ve seen this in the past, when the government tries to help domestic players. There\'ll be a sort of standoff and then later a settlement,\" Clark said. \"ragmatism typically prevails.\" \r\n\r\n \r\nOriginal article: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/busi ... ?ID=43789&GRP=E \r\n\r\n----\r\n已经安装的系统如何向该标准靠拢尚不得而知. 我个人认为这对国内相关产业是很好的保护并提供了很好的发展机会. 不知国内有关报道如何评论.