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IETF draft - "Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol"
A draft security assessment of IP, which may one day become an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC, has been announced. "This document is the result of an assessment the IETF specifications
of the Internet Protocol (IP), from a security point of view.
Possible threats were identified and, where possible, countermeasures were proposed. Additionally, many implementation flaws that
have led to security vulnerabilities have been referenced in the hope
that future implementations will not incur the same problems.
Furthermore, this document does not limit itself to performing a
security assessment of the relevant IETF specifications, but also
provides an assessment of common implementation strategies found in
the real world."
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IETF draft - "Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol" Posted Mar 5, 2010 5:23 UTC (Fri) by dkg (subscriber, #55359) [Link] Users of the web might prefer the html version of this I-D over the article's linked text/plain version. The HTML version has more convenient internal anchors and indexing, along with easily-accessible outbound links to relevant documents (such as the UK's Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol, upon which it is heavily based).Also, when a new version of the draft is released (or if it is eventually adopted officially as an Informational document by the opsec working group), the HTML version should automagically acquire links to the updated revisions.
how about ipv6 Posted Mar 5, 2010 8:38 UTC (Fri) by SimonO (subscriber, #56318) [Link]
I hope there will be a similar document for IPv6, since that is (supposed to be) the future...
/Simon
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