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Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?


From: Jim Burwell <jimb () jsbc cc>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:55:46 -0700

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On 4/22/2010 05:34, Simon Perreault wrote:
On 2010-04-22 07:18, William Herrin wrote:
On the other hand, I could swear I've seen a draft where the PC
picks up random unused addresses in the lower 64 for each new
outbound connection for anonymity purposes.

That's probably RFC 4941. It's available in pretty much all
operating systems. I don't think there's any IPR issue to be afraid
of.

Simon
I think this is different.  They're talking about using a new IPv6 for
each connection.  RFC4941 just changes it over time IIRC.  IMHO that's
still pretty good privacy, at least on par with a NATed IPv4 from the
outside perspective, especially if you rotated through temporary IPv6s
fairly frequently.

Of course, for browsers, as someone else mentioned, it's somewhat moot
because of cookies.
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