Re: [address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg] closed network and need for global uniqe IP space

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