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Christian Huitema <huitema@microsoft.com> Wed, 16 March 2011 06:29 UTC

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From: Christian Huitema <huitema@microsoft.com>
To: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt
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> Then what's all this controversy with draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions? :-) -- That aside, there have been quite a few publications asessing the real "privacy" provided with the so-called privacy-extensions....

Using randomized host identifiers is way more private than sticking a MAC address in the IPv6 address. In fact, rather than your draft proposing to not use privacy addresses, we should pursue the deprecation of using EUI-64 in addresses.

The worst part of your draft is that , if we published it, it would give the impression that for the IETF, EUI-64 addresses are more secure than privacy addresses. This is obviously false.

-- Christian Huitema

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