24 Dec
2005
24 Dec
'05
3:08 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:01:32AM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote:
At 10:03 PM 23/12/2005, Roger Jorgensen wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Gert Doering wrote: <snip>
The idea is that ULAs are random-generated in a way that makes it "fairly unlikely" that you end up in an address collision. But there is no guarantee, of course.
indeed. The chances of collision exceed 0.5 once the pool of random;y drawn numbers exceeds 1.24 million.
presuming random generation... wearing a black hat tells me that random selection is not what i want or need to attack some other machine, not when i can hijack its number and then claim plausable deniability ..
Geoff
--bill