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Re: Address privacy

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Wed, 29 January 2020 00:35 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Subject: Re: Address privacy
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:35:27 -0500
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Cc: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
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On Jan 28, 2020, at 7:17 PM, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> wrote:
> It is quantified. If a flow uses a unique address then the risk of
> using the address of packets in the flow to correlate to other flows
> is zero.

Er, no, because the address contains a lot of bits that don’t change.  64, typically.  Those bits can be used to correlate other flows.

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