> For instance, consider a link with a few dozen nodes, each of them
> having
>
> (i) a globally unique addess, constructed as prefix + EUI-64,
> (ii) link-level address, also based on the same EUI-64 id,
> (iii) a bunch of anonymous addresses based on, say,
> md5(EUI-64 + small counter), using the same prefix as the global
> address
This isn't how the randomized interface identifiers are generated...
> If you connect somewhere using an anonymous address, and the server
> has a list of previously observed global addresses, the server can
> lookup the global addresses that happened to match your prefix. Next,
> the EUI-64 ids for the matching addresses are extracted, and a
> reasonably small search will tell if any of those identifiers match
> your anonymous address, and if so, which one.
So the server can not work backwards from a public address to figure out
what anonymous addresses belong to the same node.
Rich
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