RE: No Place Left to Hide on Tomorrow's Net?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Thanks the pointer to RFC3041.  I hadn't seen it before.  The technique of
using a randomized MAC address was actually invented by Microsoft.  They
used them in GUIDs starting around 2000, but the same idea applies to IPv6
addresses.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 2:27 AM
To: Richard M. Smith
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] No Place Left to Hide on Tomorrow's Net? 

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:03:12 EST, "Richard M. Smith" said:
> Perhaps operating systems should generate a new random MAC address on 
> each reboot.  Just a thought.

Congrats, you've re-invented RFC3041.

3041 Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in
     IPv6. T. Narten, R. Draves. January 2001. (Format: TXT=44446 bytes)
     (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)


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