Re: Comment on draft-ohta-multi6-threats-00.txt

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Brian;

> > 1.4. Privacy on Identification
> >
> >   If transport layer protocols having new connection identification
> >   requires hosts having persisting identification information, it will
> >   be used to track the identify of the host, which is a new security
> >   threat.
>
>
> What is the persistency of the identifier? For a single session, for a single
> reboot, or indefinite?

It depens on proposals, though I think per session ID is rather
temporary than persistent.

> If the identifier is created per session or per reboot, the privacy
> threat seems unimportant.

Per session privacy is, of course, unimportant.

Another case where privacy is unimportant is per location change,
because you don't have location privacy.

But, if you use Unix, you should expect reboot once in every
several monthes or years that per reboot is very long.

							Masataka Ohta