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Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

  • From: Valdis . Kletnieks
  • Date: Sat Jan 05 00:44:27 2008 
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:04:24 CST, James Hess said:

> Seems like an understatement.   Ipv6 addressing doesn't merely make
> them more difficult,
> they make traditional propagation methods  and attack techniques that rely
> on 'scanning' a network  from outside impossible to execute.

I believe Steve Bellovin has already written extensively on this, and some
of the more plausible alternate non-scanning strategies for worm propagation.
I'm sure Steve has a pointer to the paper in question, which I've managed
to misplace in my senility... ;)

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