Re: Re[2]: national security

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 28-nov-03, at 13:04, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:

> > In the multi6 (multihoming in IPv6) working group, as one of many
> > proposals, we've been looking at putting a 64 bit host identifier in
> > the bottom 64 bits of an IPv6 address. If such a host identifier is
> > crypto-based (ie, a hash of a public key) then it is possible to
> > authenticate a host at any time regardless of where the host connects
> > to the network at that particular time and without the need for a PKI
> > or prior communication.

> This is precisely the kind of mistake that will exhaust the entire IPv6
> address space just as quickly as the IPv4 address space.  Don't
> engineers ever learn from the past?

I guess not because I have no idea what you're talking about.