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Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Sat, 14 May 2016 02:47 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 11:46:48 +0900
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Subject: Re: 6man w.g. last call for <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-11.txt>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> > This explicitly prohibits an implementation from taking a random MAC
> > address and forming an EUI-64 address out of it.
>
> Which is a good thing, since otherwise a bad actor could correlate the
> layer 2 and layer 3 addresses, which is actually impossible with IPv4
> but a current weakness in IPv6.
>

And this is a weakness because...?

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