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Re: Giving up security & privacy when manually configuring addresses - rfc4291bis text (Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00)

Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 07 June 2017 03:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: Giving up security & privacy when manually configuring addresses - rfc4291bis text (Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00)
From: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>
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On Jun 6, 2017, at 6:23 PM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That doesn't mention that security and privacy properties of addresses
> will be compromised if the manually configured addresses are from a
> small prefix.

Or advertised in DNS?

I would expect that any address configured manually would also be advertised in DNS, the latter being the reason for the former. If the address is publicly announced, does one have a reasonable expectation of privacy?

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