[ipv6hackers] IPv6 security presentation at Hack.lu 2011

Owen DeLong owend at he.net
Sun Sep 25 11:39:52 CEST 2011


On Sep 24, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Fernando Gont wrote:

> On 09/22/2011 03:01 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
>> Hi, On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:37:11PM -0300, Arturo Servin wrote:
>>> Jean, Regarding SEND AFAIK, you need a certificate in each device
>>> requesting network information to validate the source. For that
>>> requirement only, SEND is not easy to deploy.
>> 
>> You need the PKI infrastructure to validate RAs.
> 
> If you don't validate RA's, then an attacker would simply spoof RA's,
> and would have all packets forwarded to him, thus defeating any
> protection that could have been provided with the CGAs.
> 

Unless you use RA Guard instead.

Owen

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