NIST IPv6 document

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Jan 11 00:33:08 UTC 2011


On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:22:46 EST, Jeff Kell said:

> It is a decreasing risk, given the typical user initiated compromise of
> today (click here to infect your computer), but a non-zero one.
> 
> The whole IPv6 / no-NAT philosophy of "always connected and always
> directly addressable" eliminates this layer.

I'd say on the whole, it's a net gain - the added ease of tracking down
the click-here-to-infect machines that are no longer behind a NAT
outweighs the little added security the NAT adds (above and beyond
the statefulness that both NAT and a good firewall both add). 

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