2010/3/21 Paul Kyzivat <pkyzi...@cisco.com>:
> Iñaki,
>
> This is probably far from obvious.
>
> The reason for creating new ones was because for anonymization purposes you
> probably don't want to keep using the same one. It would have been better to
> have an explicit mechanism to request when you want a new one, but that
> didn't fit into the model well. (There were a lot of needs to balance in
> doing this. The result is not very pretty.)

Ok, good reason.


> If you think about it for awhile, you will find that it is possible to come
> up with an algorithm for constructing temp gruus that doesn't require the
> registrar to keep permanent state for each one created. (Or course its also
> possible to create algorithms that *do* require state, but that is for you
> to decide.)

But if the algorithm for constructing temp gruus would be known then
it would become a vulnerability :(

Thanks a lot.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<i...@aliax.net>

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