Host scanning in IPv6 Networks

Fri Apr 20 14:24:25 UTC 2012

On 04/20/2012 08:17 AM, Tei wrote:
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> On 20 April 2012 09:08, Fernando Gont<fernando at gont.com.ar>  wrote:
>> FYI
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: IPv6 host scanning in IPv6
>> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:57:48 -0300
>> From: Fernando Gont<fgont at si6networks.com>
>> Organization: SI6 Networks
>> To: IPv6 Hackers Mailing List<ipv6hackers at lists.si6networks.com>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> We've just published an IETF internet-draft about IPv6 host scanning
>> attacks.
>>
>> The aforementioned document is available at:
>> <http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning-00.txt>
>>
>> The Abstract of the document is:
>> ---- cut here ----
>>    IPv6 offers a much larger address space than that of its IPv4
>>    counterpart.  The standard /64 IPv6 subnets can (in theory)
>>    accommodate approximately 1.844 * 10^19 hosts, thus resulting in a
>>    much lower host density (#hosts/#addresses) than their IPv4
>>    counterparts.  As a result, it is widely assumed that it would take a
>>    tremendous effort to perform host scanning attacks against IPv6
>>    networks, and therefore IPv6 host scanning attacks have long been
>>    considered unfeasible.  This document analyzes the IPv6 address
>>    configuration policies implemented in most popular IPv6 stacks, and
>>    identifies a number of patterns in the resulting addresses lead to a
>>    tremendous reduction in the host address search space, thus
>>    dismantling the myth that IPv6 host scanning attacks are unfeasible.
>> ---- cut here ----
>>
>> Any comments will be very welcome (note: this is a drafty initial
>> version, with lots of stuff still to be added... but hopefully a good
>> starting point, and a nice reading ;-) ).
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
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