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[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg] closed network and need for global uniqe IP space
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Sat Dec 24 03:08:31 CET 2005
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:01:32AM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote: > At 10:03 PM 23/12/2005, Roger Jorgensen wrote: > >On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Gert Doering wrote: > ><snip> > >> The idea is that ULAs are random-generated in a way that makes it "fairly > >> unlikely" that you end up in an address collision. But there is no > >> guarantee, of course. > > indeed. The chances of collision exceed 0.5 once the pool of random;y drawn > numbers exceeds 1.24 million. presuming random generation... wearing a black hat tells me that random selection is not what i want or need to attack some other machine, not when i can hijack its number and then claim plausable deniability .. > Geoff > --bill
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