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| author | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2020-02-05 13:10:26 +1000 |
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| committer | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2020-02-05 22:06:40 +1000 |
| commit | c09bbe991728cfc012f2f6d689eb9348e91b6cd6 (patch) | |
| tree | fa4edbe31136f3b6bf02abcdb02ec38f7dd7d7c0 /proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt | |
| parent | 34fb76cd5f0d7ec7f4772438997dd7c5489f57f1 (diff) | |
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Prop 312: Update IPv6 Privacy Extensions
As suggested by s7r.
Part of 33073.
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diff --git a/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt b/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt index cff3c77..ad7e7f4 100644 --- a/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt +++ b/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt @@ -1286,6 +1286,13 @@ Ticket: #33073 applications if a particular address is using privacy extensions. So implementing this change may be difficult. + On operating systems that provide IPv6 address privacy extension state, + IPv6 addresses may be: + * "public" - these addresses do not change + * "temporary" - these addresses change due to IPv6 privacy extensions. + Therefore, tor should prefer "public" IPv6 addresses, when they are + available. + However, even if we do not make this change, tor should be compatible with the RFC 4941 defaults: * a new IPv6 address is generated each day |