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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