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Re: IPv6 Ignorance
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:53:49 -0700
On 9/17/2012 4:32 PM, John Levine wrote:
In article <CAArzuotqwgpBw46+xb1ngmcN1YrYTtpYgyYmPPxPQQuG9K6BdQ () mail gmail com> you write:With current use cases at least, yes. What do we know of what's going to happen in a decade or two?In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to assign IP addresses to objects smaller than a single atom. My current example of how bit IPv6 addresses are: my home LAN has a tunneled IPv6 network, and the web server on my laptop has an IPv6 address. Even though some of the stuff on the laptop is somewhat confidential, I haven't bothered to use any passwords. Why? Because guessing the random low 64 bits assigned to the web server (which are not the auto generated address from the LAN card) is at least as hard as any password scheme.
And so you never visit any websites from that laptop that might keep access logs either? You do know that lists of "active" IPv6 addresses are already not that hard to come by, and that'll just get more and more true over time, yes?
Matthew Kaufman
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Randy Bush (Sep 16)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Michael Thomas (Sep 16)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Jimmy Hess (Sep 16)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Mikael Abrahamsson (Sep 16)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Randy Bush (Sep 16)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Mikael Abrahamsson (Sep 16)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance joel jaeggli (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Randy Bush (Sep 16)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance John Mitchell (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Suresh Ramasubramanian (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance John Levine (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Matthew Kaufman (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Randy Bush (Sep 17)
- RE: IPv6 Ignorance Tomas L. Byrnes (Sep 28)
- RE: IPv6 Ignorance John R. Levine (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance George Herbert (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Jason Leschnik (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Adrian Bool (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance John Mitchell (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Nick Hilliard (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Adrian Bool (Sep 17)