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bcaa7f3a8bbc on June 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Sec...

Because IETF is NOT an industrial alliance, but Wi-Fi Alliance is. See the differences?

see also: 3GPP.

bjoli on June 27, 2018 [–]

That is the obvious difference, but why don't they develop crypto protocol with a more open model? They have had too many fiascos for me to trust their current model.

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