http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040315_6034_tc058... What I don't see mentioned in this little article is that fact that WEP is largely useless in terms of security. So in a way the Chinese were attempting to jump into that hole. Of course, Zhong Nan Hai will have a nice backdoor for themselves. In In China things will play out like this if they successfully enact the standard: t=0: Standard enacted t= 6 months: Some concerns stated about the new standard's security. Jong Nan Hai issues statements in reply 'proving' that the concerns are unwarranted. t=9 months: Standard is hacked wide open...a simple tool is posted on the Internet internationally, and by Chinese locally. t=10 months: All links to the hack internationally are shut down, any locals still crowing about the security are arrested. Jong Nan Hai either ignores claims of a hack or else states that a simple patch has closed the hole, which was no big deal anyway. t=14 months: WiFi routinely hacked in China. Jong Nan Hai continues to claim standard is secure, except for very rare cases. But states that anyone eavesdropping will be prosecuted and possibly executed. t=18 months: Jong Nan hai claims standard is safe because of government control. Meanwhile, no Chinese use WiFi for anything critical. -TD _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar  get it now! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ Reporting-MTA: dns;hotmail.com Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com Arrival-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:57:48 -0800 Final-Recipient: rfc822;cypherpunks@minder.net Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:57:48 -0800 Received: from 12.10.219.37 by by7fd.bay7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:57:48 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.10.219.37] X-Originating-Email: [camera_lumina@hotmail.com] X-Sender: camera_lumina@hotmail.com From: "Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> To: cypherpunks@minder.net Subject: China & WiFi Encryption Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:57:48 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <BAY7-F98EoRF0o059DF00064d5d@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Mar 2004 17:57:48.0896 (UTC) FILETIME=[3197AE00:01C40B80] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040315_6034_tc058... What I don't see mentioned in this little article is that fact that WEP is largely useless in terms of security. So in a way the Chinese were attempting to jump into that hole. Of course, Zhong Nan Hai will have a nice backdoor for themselves. In In China things will play out like this if they successfully enact the standard: t=0: Standard enacted t= 6 months: Some concerns stated about the new standard's security. Jong Nan Hai issues statements in reply 'proving' that the concerns are unwarranted. t=9 months: Standard is hacked wide open...a simple tool is posted on the Internet internationally, and by Chinese locally. t=10 months: All links to the hack internationally are shut down, any locals still crowing about the security are arrested. Jong Nan Hai either ignores claims of a hack or else states that a simple patch has closed the hole, which was no big deal anyway. t=14 months: WiFi routinely hacked in China. Jong Nan Hai continues to claim standard is secure, except for very rare cases. But states that anyone eavesdropping will be prosecuted and possibly executed. t=18 months: Jong Nan hai claims standard is safe because of government control. Meanwhile, no Chinese use WiFi for anything critical. -TD _________________________________________________________________ Find things fast with the new MSN Toolbar  includes FREE pop-up blocking! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200414ave/direct/01/