Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms
RFC 7721
Document | Type | RFC - Informational (March 2016; No errata) | |
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Authors | Alissa Cooper , Fernando Gont , Dave Thaler | ||
Last updated | 2016-03-09 | ||
Replaces | draft-cooper-6man-ipv6-address-generation-privacy | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Ole Trøan | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2015-06-18) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7721 (Informational) | |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
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Responsible AD | Brian Haberman | ||
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IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Cooper Request for Comments: 7721 Cisco Category: Informational F. Gont ISSN: 2070-1721 Huawei Technologies D. Thaler Microsoft March 2016 Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms Abstract This document discusses privacy and security considerations for several IPv6 address generation mechanisms, both standardized and non-standardized. It evaluates how different mechanisms mitigate different threats and the trade-offs that implementors, developers, and users face in choosing different addresses or address generation mechanisms. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7721. Cooper, et al. Informational [Page 1] RFC 7721 IPv6 Address Generation Privacy March 2016 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2016 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Weaknesses in IEEE-Identifier-Based IIDs . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Correlation of Activities over Time . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Location Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3. Address Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.4. Device-Specific Vulnerability Exploitation . . . . . . . 7 4. Privacy and Security Properties of Address Generation Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. IEEE-Identifier-Based IIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.2. Static, Manually Configured IIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.3. Constant, Semantically Opaque IIDs . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.4. Cryptographically Generated IIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.5. Stable, Semantically Opaque IIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.6. Temporary IIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.7. DHCPv6 Generation of IIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.8. Transition and Coexistence Technologies . . . . . . . . . 12 5. Miscellaneous Issues with IPv6 Addressing . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.1. Network Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.2. Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.3. Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Cooper, et al. Informational [Page 2] RFC 7721 IPv6 Address Generation Privacy March 2016 1. Introduction IPv6 was designed to improve upon IPv4 in many respects, and mechanisms for address assignment were one such area for improvement. In addition to static address assignment and DHCP, stateless autoconfiguration was developed as a less intensive, fate-shared means of performing address assignment. With statelessShow full document text