MIIT Seeks Comment on ZUC Telecommunication Industry Standards

On April 23rd 2013, The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) published for comment two ZUC telecom industry standards ("ZUC algorithm for LTE Terminals and Network Equipment Security Technology Requirements") with a May 8th deadline for comment submission.

The two ZUC standards regulate functional security testing requirements of network equipment.

For MIIT's announcement in Chinese, please refer to MIIT's website.

For the English translation of the announcement, please find it here.

Please find USITO report on ZUC 4G LTE encryption algorithm published in January 2012.