Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web in Just One Hour

Re:Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web... by dadrian on Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:00PM (#15143401)

IPv6 is 2^96 times larger than IPv4. You'd need 100*2^96 servers. That's not tractable with a brute force method.

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Re:Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web... by trapperkeeper74 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:16PM (#15143532)

Maybe not that many, but still a lot more, if you first looked at BGP, and only brute-forced networks that were routable, rather than the entire search space.

Basically, before scanning, query and iterate all ASes advertisments and union present ranges, then feed that to zmap or something that can scan IPv4 and/or IPv6.

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Re:Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web... by b4ux1t3 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:11PM (#15143968)

I dunno how I messed that up. I'mma blame the post-lunch slump. For some reason I was thinking IPv6 was 64 bits.

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