-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/22/2010 05:34, Simon Perreault wrote: > On 2010-04-22 07:18, William Herrin wrote: >> On the other hand, I could swear I've seen a draft where the PC >> picks up random unused addresses in the lower 64 for each new >> outbound connection for anonymity purposes. > > That's probably RFC 4941. It's available in pretty much all > operating systems. I don't think there's any IPR issue to be afraid > of. > > Simon I think this is different. They're talking about using a new IPv6 for each connection. RFC4941 just changes it over time IIRC. IMHO that's still pretty good privacy, at least on par with a NATed IPv4 from the outside perspective, especially if you rotated through temporary IPv6s fairly frequently.
Of course, for browsers, as someone else mentioned, it's somewhat moot because of cookies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvQR1IACgkQ2fXFxl4S7sT0agCglqjxX9d2kYuadrreIqPo5+rN FMAAniW1GodHwArieT/Czd96aMGQTgEF =xYjP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----