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Title : Security of IPv6 Routing Header and Home Address
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Author(s) : P. Savola
Filename : draft-savola-ipv6-rh-ha-security-03.txt
Pages : 18
Date : 2002-12-2
All IPv6 nodes must be able to process Routing Header [IPV6] and Home
Address [MIPV6] Options. With these, packet filter access lists can
be tricked (among other things) as the destination and source
addresses, respectively, are being rewritten as the packet traverses
the network. Some of the security considerations of these features
are analyzed, and a few possible solutions presented. It will be
shown that with the current architecture, the network-based security
does not seem to scale to the requirements of Mobile IPv6; it seems
possible that unless security is taken seriously when implementing
the nodes, the new Mobile IPv6 requirements might not be allowed to
be used at all in some circumstances.
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