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Re: Is this true?

2010-08-27 09:51:41


On 8/26/2010 2:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
  Apart from that, it's scare-mongering. Consider that
the basic model for IPv6 is not fundamentally different than IPv4;
why would the underlying security vulnerabilities be fundamentally
different?


well, just to give that question its due, interesting changes in details can sometimes produce interesting changes in the behavior of a model and therefore of its implications.

in this case, the vastly larger address space of IPv6 permits attackers to switch to new addresses at a rate that was not possible with IPv4. this is likely to defeat the substantial infrastructure of attack-tracking that is address-based, such as for anti-spam.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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