On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Steve Deering wrote: > At 10:41 AM -0400 8/27/02, Joe Baptista wrote: > >However IPv6 has many privacy issues. IPv6 address space uses an ID > >(indentifier) derived from your hardware or phone. "That allows your > >packets to be traced back to your PC or cell-phone" said <censored>. > ><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. > > Joe, > > This issue was addressed a *long* time ago -- please see > http://playground.sun.com/ipv6/specs/ipv6-address-privacy.html > from November of 1999. Your source has either a very shallow > or out-of-date understanding of IPv6, or some reason to want to > propagate misinformation. Thanks for checking here.
i don't think so. even if rfc3041 effectively solves the problem of traceability at the network layer, there are still many security problems to be solved. please take a look at this paper, which provides a somewhat more articulated explanation of the problem, a few proposal to address it and an excellent bibliography: ftp://ftp.cs.unibo.it/pub/techreports/2002-08.ps.gz -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it Project6 - IPv6 for Linux http://project6.ferrara.linux.it -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
