RE: Next steps for draft-gont-6man-predictable-fragment-id

2013-03-11 Thread John Day
At 11:07 PM + 3/10/13, Dmitry Anipko wrote: In such an attack, is the attacker on the path between the victim and the server? If yes, there are more efficient ways how they can DoS the victim. If no, how does the attacker know which of the billions hosts on the Internet will be talking to

RE: Next steps for draft-gont-6man-predictable-fragment-id

2013-03-11 Thread John Day
A second thought. Really all you have to do is grab some cloud resources and you can blast away at thousands of people starting at hundreds of points in the identifier space and since you have already hacked the cloud, it is all free. (After the RSA breach (I had students involved in the

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-18 Thread John Day
is that it is possible for not very good programmers to do dumb things that will work for awhile. As we have seen in this field since its inception, it is dangerous to confuse economic success with good science. Well, it works! is merely an excuse, not an argument for good science. Take care, John

Re: New Version Notification for draft-macaulay-6man-packet-stain-00.txt

2012-02-13 Thread John Day
Odd you should mention the speeding ticket. Cop pulled Rich over just after they entered OK on the way down. Sauntered up to the car and said, Do you know how fast you were going? Rich said, yes. Officer says, 86. Rich says, The heck I was. The cruise control was set on 75 (in a 75 mph

Re: What's 16 bits between friends?

2007-09-18 Thread John Day
At 17:21 -0700 2007/09/17, Fred Baker wrote: I'm not quite sure what point you're making. If it's the size of the network part or the host part of an IPv6 address, as I recall the logic, the original stated requirement was that an ipng address should be able to represent 10^12 networks (42

Re: Questions about geographical dependent addresses

2004-12-02 Thread John Day
Geographical is a possible topology according to all of my topology books. As every map projection illustrates by constructing a topology between the map and the physical world. Whether that topology and a particular graph have a topological relation is a different matter. A network in and of