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2014

Edith Cowan University

IPv6

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A Survey Of Ipv6 Address Usage In The Public Domain Name System, Clinton R. Carpene, Andrew Woodward Jan 2014

A Survey Of Ipv6 Address Usage In The Public Domain Name System, Clinton R. Carpene, Andrew Woodward

Australian Information Security Management Conference

The IPv6 protocol has been slowly increasing in use on the Internet. The main reason for the development of the protocol is that the address space provided by IPv4 is nearing exhaustion. The pool of addresses provided by IPv6 is 296 times larger than IPv4, and should be sufficient to provide an address for every device for the foreseeable future. Another potential advantage of this significantly large address space is the use of randomly assigned addresses as a security barrier as part of a defence in depth strategy. This research examined the addresses allocated by those implementing IPv6 to determine …


Evaluating The Security Vulenerabilities Of The Ip6to4 Tunnelling Mechanism, Brian Cusack, Raymond Lutui Jan 2014

Evaluating The Security Vulenerabilities Of The Ip6to4 Tunnelling Mechanism, Brian Cusack, Raymond Lutui

Australian Information Security Management Conference

The two versions of Internet Protocol (IP) rely on mechanisms that will convert one protocol to the other and vice versa. Version 4 is still prevalent in the Internet backbone and version 6 in most private networks. In this research we focus on the automatic tunnelling mechanism that provides the encapsulation at one end of the transition tunnel and the de-encapsulation at the other end dependant on the direction of transition. In our research we asked: How secure is the automatic tunnelling mechanism? It is a simple question but important given the number of times transition may occur in any …