At 10:27 PM +0300 8/29/02, Pekka Savola wrote: >Belief that by randomly regenerating only the interface identifier part of >the address will give you privacy is IMO false.
Pekka, I don't think anyone has made such a broad claim. The random interface ID mechanism addresses the specific privacy concerns raised by using IIDs derived from IEEE-802 or EUI-64 addresses (or other factory-assigned serial numbers), such as those concerns mentioned in Joe's message: At 10:41 AM -0400 8/27/02, Joe Baptista wrote: ><censored> fears abuse as a hardware ID wired into the ipv6 protocol can >be used to determine the manufacturer, make and model number, and value >of the hardware equipment being used by the end user. >... >...Under Ipv6 users can be tracked and income >demographics determined through hardware identification. >... ><censored> warns users to think twice before they buy themselves a used >Lap-Top computer and inherit all the prior surfing history of the >previous user... Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
