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Re: 3484bis and privacy addresses

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Tue, 27 March 2012 08:44 UTC

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Brian Haberman wrote, on 03/27/2012 09:33 AM:
> A. Prefer public addresses over privacy addresses
> 
> B. Prefer privacy addresses over public addresses

I prefer B.

I don't buy the "HTTP cookies already give us away" argument. Privacy at all
levels of the stack is good. (I randomize my L2 MAC at boot time, lots of fun!)
If we have good privacy at L3, then we "only" have L7 left to fix.

Simon
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