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Re: [6man] Stable privacy addresses (upcoming rev)

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Fri, 30 March 2012 20:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [6man] Stable privacy addresses (upcoming rev)
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Brian,

On 03/30/2012 09:47 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2012-03-31 02:04, Ray Hunter wrote:
> ...
>> The idea being that authorized persons e.g. law enforcement and network
>> managers SHOULD be able to correlate activity at a later date (for legal
>> compliance, logging, fault finding etc.) whilst an attacker or
>> unauthorized person SHOULD NOT.
> 
> If you were a blogger sitting in an Internet cafe in a country governed
> by a repressive regime, you would probably hold a different view.

If the regime controls the local-link, then as far as address-tracking
is concerned, you're toast. -- They could sniff the network and log the
address->MAC mappings, have RAs require you to do DHCPv6 and then have
DHCPv6 assign you a constant address, etc.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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