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Re: NIST IPv6 document
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:46:49 -0800
On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
It has nothing to do with "security by obscurity".You may wish to re-read what Joe was saying - he was positing sparse addres= sing as a positive good because it will supposedly make it more difficult f= or attackers to locate endpoints in the first place, i.e., security through= obscurity. I think that's an invalid argument.That's not necessarily security through obscurity. A client that just picks a random(*) address in the /64 and sits on it forever could be reasonably argued to be doing a form of security through obscurity. However, that's not the only potential use! A client that initiates each new outbound connection from a different IP address is doing something Really Good.
If hosts start cycling their addresses that frequently, don't you run the risk of that becoming a form of DOS on your router's ND tables? Owen
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- Re: NIST IPv6 document Paul Ferguson (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jack Bates (Jan 06)
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- Re: NIST IPv6 document Lamar Owen (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jeff Wheeler (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Joe Greco (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jeff Wheeler (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Joe Greco (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Lamar Owen (Jan 06)
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