Another driver for v6?

Wed Oct 29 22:29:20 UTC 2008

On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:

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> Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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>> They claim they will deploy IPv6 in their worldwide enterprise  
>> network, do away with central based enterprise firewalls and do  
>> host-to-host IPv6+IPSEC, Active Directory based certificates for  
>> authentication.
>
> You know that windows 2000 was released with this functionality. Its  
> nothing new and it is not ipv6 specific.
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> Who is using it precisely?

   Microsoft, on 200,000 computers at the time of the paper below.

   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735174.aspx

   We have a couple of departments using IPsec here and one more  
seriously looking at it.  (Mainly a matter of finding time to test and  
implement.)

Plus there are at least a couple of other Universities.

http://members.microsoft.com/CustomerEvidence/Search/EvidenceDetails.aspx?EvidenceID=14258&LanguageID=1

https://members.microsoft.com/customerevidence/search/EvidenceDetails.aspx?EvidenceID=14205&LanguageID=1

   And I see a City has been added to the list.

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000161

http://www.cu.ipv6tf.org/pdf/v6security_6Sense_Jan2006.pdf

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