Cryptography Law of the People’s Republic of China

On October 26, 2019, approved by the 14th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress, the first comprehensive law in the field of password management, the “Cryptography Law of the People’s Republic of China was finally adopted and effective at January 1, 2020. The password are divided into core passwords, ordinary passwords and commercial passwords. Core passwords and ordinary passwords shall be used to protect state secret information. Core passwords shall be used to protect information of up to secret level and ordinary passwords shall be used to protect information of up to confidential level. Commercial passwords shall be used to protect ordinary commercial information rather than the state secret.