comcast ipv6 PTR

Wed Oct 16 13:12:03 UTC 2013

In message <199168.1381928361 at turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
 writes:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:50:29 +1100, Mark Andrews said:
> 
> > I can see this being done completely automatically by the CPE device.
> > It is trivial to code.  It just required ISP's to *allow* it to happen.
> 
> The rest of the plan looks OK at first glance.. However, step 0:
> 
> > * CPE generates a RSA key pair.  Stores this in non-volatile memory.
> >   [needs to be coded, no protocol work required]
> 
> has proven to be a lot harder to do in the field than one might expect, due
> to the very limited amount of entropy sources available to a CPE that Joe
> Sixpack just pulled out of a Best Buy shopping bag.  Witness the truly huge
> pile of CPE that generate horribly insecure weak self-signed certs for https.
> ...

Which is easily solvable when you design the CPE device to have
good sources of hardware randomness.  CPE devices are no longer
just routers which shuffle packets.  There are lots of activities
that CPE deviced do that require good randomness and it only costs
a couple of cents to add it the devices.

Mark
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