On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 11:03 AM, Richard Draves wrote:
> Even if the adversary somehow knows there is only one machine per
> subnet, I think RFC 3041 still enhances privacy.
>
> First, it hides the manufacturer of your network card.
>
> Second, it prevents the adversary from tracking usage of the network
> card across multiple subnets. This is important for mobile devices.
I thought the goal was to protect people's privacy and obviously I was
wrong... ;-)
What 3041 achieves is to make traceability in IPv6 the same as
traceability
in IPv4+NAT. One can track my IPv6 prefix/household identifier the same
way
one can track the IPv4 global address of my NAT box/house hold identifier
but no one can say that I'm typing this message from a computer with
a <foobar> nic.
- Alain.
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