Re: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks

2012-06-15 Thread Fernando Gont
On 06/13/2012 05:22 PM, STARNES, CURTIS wrote: > Going from an IPv4 32 bit address space to a IPv6 128 bit address > space like you mentioned in the article would be a tedious effort to > scan. (tedious != infeasible) && (tedious < 5 years) -- that's the point the article is trying to mak

Re: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks

2012-06-15 Thread Fernando Gont
On 06/13/2012 08:24 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:22 -0500, STARNES, CURTIS wrote: >> I have a slight problem with stating that "Vast IPv6 address space >> actually enables IPv6 attacks". > > So do I. As noted, so do I. :-) > Compared to IPv4, scanning IPv6 is much, much harde

RE: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks

2012-06-13 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:22 -0500, STARNES, CURTIS wrote: > I have a slight problem with stating that "Vast IPv6 address space > actually enables IPv6 attacks". So do I. Compared to IPv4, scanning IPv6 is much, much harder, and that is (I think) the most important thing to know. The analysis was

Re: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks

2012-06-13 Thread Fernando Gont
On 06/13/2012 03:37 PM, Dave Hart wrote: >>> "published" and "available" are misleading at best. >> >> It is not. Just scroll down the page, and you'll find the whole article. >> -- it was easy to talk crap than to do that, right? > > Yes, I'm an idiot for believing what I read on that site: > >

RE: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks

2012-06-13 Thread STARNES, CURTIS
ck. Curtis -Original Message- From: Dave Hart [mailto:daveh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:29 PM To: Fernando Gont Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: > Folks, > > TechTarget has

Re: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks

2012-06-13 Thread Dave Hart
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: > On 06/13/2012 02:28 PM, Dave Hart wrote: > >>> The aforementioned article is available at: >>> >> >>> >> "published" and "available" are

Re: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks

2012-06-13 Thread Fernando Gont
On 06/13/2012 02:28 PM, Dave Hart wrote: >> The aforementioned article is available at: >> > >> > "published" and "available" are misleading at best. It is not. Just scroll down the page,

Re: Article: IPv6 host scanning attacks

2012-06-13 Thread Dave Hart
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: > Folks, > > TechTarget has published an article I've authored for them, entitled > "Analysis: Vast IPv6 address space actually enables IPv6 attacks". > > The aforementioned article is available at: >