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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
	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 11:03:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160527150318.GA25040@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <614c9a42-02c1-052a-52b6-289818bf757b@stressinduktion.org>

On (05/27/16 11:53), Hannes Frederic Sowa 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...
> 
> Sorry, Tom, can you try to explain again, I think I might not have
> understood you correctly.

yes, me too. Might help to discuss this by looking at an instance
of the type of option we are talking about. 

Usually hbh options are handled in the forwarding path (and thus
as unpopular as ip options, since they derail the packet to the 
slow path). Are you suggesting some type of AAA to vet the hbh 
option itself?

--Sowmini

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-27 15:03 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 [this message]
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
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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