Does IPv6 protocol solve all security problems of IPv4?

Majstor, Franjo (2003) Does IPv6 protocol solve all security problems of IPv4? In: Information Security Solutions Europe, 07-09 October 2003, Vienna, Austria.

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Abstract

Network security specialists familiar with IPv4 protocol would gladly hope that the IPv6 protocol would easily solve the security problems we are having today in networks based on the IPv4 protocol. Well, the truth is as always somewhere in between. IP Security protocol or shortly IPsec, is the protocol which was developed for IPv6 protocol and is certainly adding significant level of security to it, but isn't solving all existing network security problems and it is at the same time with its flexibility introducing some new ones. Mobile IP protocol is built in the IPv6 protocol, however security solutions for it are still under development. Dynamic configuration flexibility of IPv6 is, if not properly used, enemy of it as well. This paper is after quick primer of the IPv6 protocol, listing and explaining few security issues to which we are exposed in IPv6 network environments.

EPrint Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	STIndustries Security Whitepaper - http://www.stindustries.net
Uncontrolled Keywords:	IPv6 Security Network IPsec Neighbor Discovery Authentication Mobility
Subjects:	Home Networking Security IPv6 Deployment Enterprise Networking Mobile IPv6
ID Code:	183
Deposited By:	Mr David Mills
Deposited On:	27 February 2006

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