IPv6 Security Considerations

Heidarri, Mohammad (2004) IPv6 Security Considerations.

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Abstract

IP version 4 has played a main role in the interworking environments for many years, it has proved flexible enough to work on many different networking technologies and however it has become a victim of its own success – explosive growth! - In the 1990s the “World Wide Web “and personal computers shifted the user of the Internet to the general public. This change has created heavy demands for new IP addresses; the lack of IPv4 addressing space was the basic problem. In the early 1990s IETF began to work on the IPv4 for solving the address exhaustion and other scalability problem. After several proposals were investigated a new IP version was recommended in late 1994, the new version is called IPv6 (also called IPng: IP next generation). IPv6 uses a 128 bit IP address made up of eight 16 bit integers separated by colons; IPv6 contains many new features including native security. In this article I try to explain IPv6 security concepts.

EPrint Type:	White Paper
Additional Information:	STIndustries Security Whitepaper - http://www.stindustries.net
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Concepts Considerations Security IPv6
Subjects:	Security IPv6 Deployment
ID Code:	194
Deposited By:	Mr David Mills
Deposited On:	28 February 2006

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