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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.

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I mean, there's open source implementations linked in the same Wikipedia article: https://on4wp7.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/214...

Which, 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.

I doubt it's easily enforceable though. This is China, where everything goes (as long as you know the right people and/or have money.)

Quite a few very influential people thought so, as well. They are being executed on disciplinary charges (ie. corruption).

... 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. ;)

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