From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: IPv6 extension header privileges
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 18:46:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1464367605.681310.620746281.74E342B0@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALx6S3580cJPWskNYD_xYbveXTdOzPVB8axXh471jDVzm94PhA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 26, 2016, at 20:42, Tom Herbert wrote:
> Thinking about this some more, the per option white list is a better
> approach. If we allow an open ended mechanism for applications to
> signal the network with arbitrary data (like user specified hbp
> options would be), then use of that mechanism will inevitably
> exploited by some authorities to force user to hand over private data
> about their communications. It's better to not build in back doors to
> security...
Also I don't think that HbH options form some kind of hidden covert
channel. They mostly appear by unused fields which cannot be verified by
the other (receiving) side in any way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-27 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-20 22:37 IPv6 extension header privileges Tom Herbert
2016-05-21 0:20 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-21 1:56 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-05-21 9:34 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-21 10:02 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-05-21 15:19 ` Tom Herbert
2016-05-21 15:33 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-21 16:00 ` Tom Herbert
2016-05-21 16:16 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-21 17:46 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-05-22 1:08 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-22 11:56 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-05-22 12:13 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-23 18:11 ` Tom Herbert
2016-05-26 18:42 ` Tom Herbert
2016-05-27 9:53 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-27 15:03 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-05-27 16:59 ` Tom Herbert
2016-05-27 17:14 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-27 17:38 ` Tom Herbert
2016-05-27 16:46 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2016-05-27 17:05 ` Tom Herbert
2016-05-21 16:28 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-05-27 3:37 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
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