Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-gont-numeric-ids-sec-considerations-06

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 07 January 2021 06:21 UTC

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Hello, Gyan,

Thanks a lot for your feedback! In-line....


On 7/1/21 02:27, Gyan Mishra via Datatracker wrote:
[...]
> Summary:
> This document updates RFC 3552 Security Considerations for Transient numeric
> identifiers employed in network protocols. Currently RFC 3552 does not address
> transient network identifiers exploitation by pervasive monitoring.

Note: we're not targeting, specifically, pervasive monitoring.

We're essentially targeting security and privacy implications of 
transient numeric IDs in general. -- their implications are currently 
not covered by RFC3552.

Of course, some transient numeric IDs could certainly be exploited at 
mass scale.


> Minor issues:
> My suggestion is to maybe have examples section similar to RFC 3552 that gives
> examples of the security implications of the various types of transient numeric
> identifiers. An example for IPv6 IID would be using modified EUI64 versus RFC
> 4941 privacy extension or even RFC 7217 / RFC 8064 stable IID.

Do you have in mind something like what's in Section 8 (and subsections) 
of; 
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-generation-05.txt 
?

If so, and provided others agree, we can move (or copy) that section 
into this document.

Thanks, and Happy New Year!
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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