[ipv6hackers] SEND implementation Patent

[Richard Barnes]

I would expect it's more the operational / key management issue.  You
need to get hosts and routers issued certificates and key pairs.
Which you probably be straightforward with something like Active
Directory, but quite complex (especially w.r.t. the routers).  So I
could definitely see someone like Microsoft deciding that it was
something that would be expensive in developer time to make
deployable, and not something that their customers are clamoring for,
thus a low priority.


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:28:58PM -0300, Fernando Gont wrote:
>> Because with other unsecured pieces, such as the DNS, SEND does not
>> really make sense?
>>
>> Also, because many other systems do not implement it, either, so it
>> doesn't pay much to be the first to do so?
>
> Well, since Microsoft likes people to live in a closed world anyway,
> and has the most of the needed CA infrastructure already in-place in
> their active directory environment, it would be fairly easy to add
> SEND and "some sort of secure name resolution" to a Windows forest...
>
> ... and even good marketing: look, with Microsoft, your network is
> much more secure than with Unix etc.
>
> Gert Doering
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