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It's just an excuse to force foreign companies to license the algorithm. There's 0 chance foreign nations don't have a copy of the encryption algorithm.
by tw04 11y ago
It's just an excuse to force foreign companies to license the algorithm. There's 0 chance foreign nations don't have a copy of the encryption algorithm.
- lutoma 11y agoI mean, there's open source implementations linked in the same Wikipedia article: https://on4wp7.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/21455#EvilTransform.cs https://on4wp7.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/214...
- tw04 11y agoWhich, as mentioned, are technically created via illegal means. And incorporating them would into a commercial product would likely see your product banned from sale in China.
- userbinator 11y agoI doubt it's easily enforceable though. This is China, where everything goes (as long as you know the right people and/or have money.)
- Tomte 11y agoQuite a few very influential people thought so, as well. They are being executed on disciplinary charges (ie. corruption).
- fixermark 11y ago... and there's no chance the space-faring superpowers don't already have their own map data of China, in their own coordinate schemas, with their own annotations for military purposes. After all, launching all those mapping satellites was expensive. They did it for some reason. ;)