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	Title		: RFC 3041 Considered Harmful
	Author(s)	: F. Dupont, P. Savola
	Filename	: draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3041harmful-04.txt
	Pages		: 6
	Date		: 2004-2-10
	
The purpose of the privacy extensions for stateless address
autoconfiguration [1] is to change the interface identifier (and
the global-scope addresses generated from it) over time in order
to make it more difficult for eavesdroppers and other information
collectors to identify when different addresses used in different
transactions actually correspond to the same node.
Current Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) [2] attacks employ
forged source addresses which can also be in the same prefixes
than the real addresses of the compromised nodes used for attacks.
Indeed, network ingress filtering defeats DDoS using 'random'
forged source addresses.

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