WAPI against 802.11i failure wireless standard has been upgraded to Sino US dispute

March 8th, quick vote, Chinese wireless standard WAPI and IEEE802.11i standard for international standard. The result showed that the vote for the 30 member countries of WAPI, with 8 votes; 31 countries members of the 11i vote, 24 votes in favor of. National standard WAPI in the United States and the international standard IEEE802.11i standard competition again defeated.

Yesterday, director of the Institute of electronic technology Chinese standard China broadband wireless IP standard working group members, Wang Lijian told reporters that the national standard WAPI10 days ago by 16 votes to the American IEEE802.11i standard, the next step on each other's false accusations and secret operations to the international organization for standardization appeal.

The three major causes of failure

"Now many media speculation in this matter, I do not want to say. There are three reasons for our failure, interpersonal relationships, corporate financial resources are relatively weak and each other's false accusations. In particular, the United States IEEE in the canvassing stage by a large chip giant to pay, please vote members to take a trip around the world by plane. We can't do it." Yesterday, Wang Lijian, director of an interview with reporters revealed the three reasons for the failure of the application. The

Will appeal

Wang Lijian said in an interview: "we were voting members (30) (31) less than their one is in accordance with the provisions of the international convention, this means that we must continue to work hard in the future work in the. International standards in the application of competition is certainly there, when the two standards are inconsistent, the other side to take some measures is also positive. In fact, our WAPI standards and the United States can coexist on the 11i technology. Next, we will appeal to the international organization for Standardization in the last round of voting made false accusations and covert operations to the international organization for standardization."

GB more security

When talking about the advantages and disadvantages of two standard respectively, Wang Lijian said: "I can tell you is that from a technical point of WAPI is better than the security of the United States IEEE802.11i." Said in a public statement Chinese broadband wireless IP Standard Working Group on the front, WAPI is an advanced, safe and reliable security solution, security vulnerabilities can effectively make up the WLAN international standard. The core technology of WAPI is the superiority and security of the direct bidirectional authentication technology, which can not be compared with the 11i, and the security should be the most important and the most important factor. 11i security system, including WEP and TKIP, there are serious security vulnerabilities, the user will be a serious threat to information security.

GB from IEEE

Yesterday, a insiders pointed out that "Chinese WAPI and America's IEEE802.11i are actually the security algorithm increased in 802.11b wireless LAN standard on the basis of the original. We all want to put their algorithm standards as international standards. Since the wireless LAN standard was originally developed and promoted in the United States, of course, the follow-up to upgrade the standard to have the right to speak. Just because the standards relating to national security and commercial purposes, GB can become the international standard is expected to be natural. I personally think that the state and enterprises should pay more attention to the standard, active participation, active communication. The reason for the failure can not be simply attributed to the high level of technology, money, and other aspects of communication."

For complaint, insiders said that the appeal results have two possibilities, one is the international standard in the United States, learn some Chinese standard. The two is to do some work on the compatibility of the two, into a standard. Once our country in the domestic WAPI, the development of many domestic manufacturers is a good thing, it will be able to make the domestic wireless LAN products manufacturing enterprises to get rid of foreign companies on the monopoly of chip technology. However, including the INTEL Centrino mobile platform, many foreign wireless LAN products, will be due to data transmission encryption algorithm is not compatible and make changes, but this change is not hard. The

[glossary]

Wireless LAN (Wireless LAN WLAN) is based on the 802.11b standard data transmission peak is 11Mbps, the transmission distance is generally 100 meters.

GB WAPI and IEEE802.11i is to enhance the new standard of wireless LAN security and confidentiality development. Wireless local area network is commonly used in airports, hotels and other places to set up wireless access point AP, allowing people to use laptop computers or other handheld terminal wireless Internet access.