On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:11:29AM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: > Ipv6 allows for stateless configuration of a interface. The IEEE (aka > MAC or hardware address) is generally used to generate tentative > addresses which commonly end up being the assigned address provided > stateful addressing does not exist on the network (such as DHCP.) This > is the case in OpenBSD's import of KAME. > > Since the same method to generate an IP is used over an over (the host > has an unchanging, persistant address,) the traffic generated and > recieved by hosts would be open to many forms of analysis not > necessairly confined to the computing world. For example, when some is > at home, at work; what they access could be more easily tied to them > (and the hardware they use,) decreasing anonymity. > > The problem and solution are outlined in RFC 3041. > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3041.txt > > The solution is to use random data to generate ipv6 stateless addresses. > > Trying to be productive and not an asshole,
Is there a question? If you wish to generate random ipv6 stateless addresses, ``jot -rs: -w%.2x 6 0 255'' and ifconfig(8) work. -Ray-
