ISO rejects WAPI (for now)

[Joachim Strombergson]

Aloha!

David Johnston wrote:
> Joachim Strombergson wrote:
>> I don't know if you have seen this, but ISO rejected the WAPI standard 
>> proposal, opting instead for 802.11i/WPA2.
>>
>> http://eet.com/news/design/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502994
>>
>> How terrible, AES instead of the secret sauce-cipher. ,-)
>>
> WAPI is no longer secret sausce. It has been published in Chinese, 
> including the formerly unpublished SMS4 block cipher.

Great, now could anybody please decipher the Chinese-encrypted 
description? ;-)

On a more serious note, has anybody done any analysis of SMS4 yet? The 
only thing I could find when Googling was this ISO document related to 
the fast track-effort. The actual text about SMS4 is rather brief:

https://committees.standards.org.au/COMMITTEES/I-000/X0001/JTC001-N-7904.pdf

-- 
Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers!

Joachim Strömbergson
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