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RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kuhtz, Christian)
Fri Jul 8 16:02:06 2005

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:43:19 -0500
From: "Kuhtz, Christian" <christian.kuhtz@bellsouth.com>
To: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>,
	"Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> > Compare with SSL (works out-of-the-box in 99.999% cases,
> > and allows both, full and hard security with root certificates etc,
or
> > simple security based on _ok, I trust you first time, then we can
> > work_.
>=20
> If I'm on the same shared medium as you I can kill your SSL session
> with one packet.

Only if shared medium =3D vanilla CSMA/CD Ethernet or the like.

Just because 'transport' is shared, doesn't mean you as the consumer of
information carried by the network have visibility.


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