The IETF has published RFC 6274, entitled "Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol Version 4", which is an IETF version of the IPv4 security assessment that had been published by…
An article that I've authored for techtarget.com has just been published. It is entitled "Requirements for secure IPv6 deployments include better IPv6 tester tools". The "abstract" of the article is:This…
Techtarget.com has published and article entitled "World IPv6 Day recap" which comments on the outcome of the World IPv6 Day.I have been quoted in that article noting that many people…
A new IETF RFC that I have authored has been published. It is RFC 6191, entitled "Reducing the TIME-WAIT State Using TCP Timestamps". The Abstract of the RFC is:This document…
SearchEnterpriseWAN.com has published an article entitled "Why IPv6 won't rid the Internet of Network Address Translation" that I have authored for them.The article begins with:Why IPv6 won't rid the Internet…
Folks,Our document "Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization" has just been published as IETF RFC 6056.The Abstract of the RFC is:During the last few years, awareness has been raised about a…
This was posted on the NANOG mailing-list by Jack Bates. Well-said!As my corp IT guy put it to me, PAT forces a routing disconnect between internal and external. There is…
We have published an IETF Internet-Draft entitled "Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks", which is a revision of Steven Bellovin's RFC 1948. The Abstract of the I-D is:This document specifies an…
RFC 6093 (co-authored by Andrew Yourtchenko and me) has just been published by the RFC Editor.It is available at: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6093.txtThe Abstract of the document is This document analyzes how current…
While the article written by Carolyn Duffy Marsan for NetworkWorld is entitled "Cisco eats its own IPv6 dog food", this excerpt does not really indicate that Cisco is really eating…