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Re:Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fib... by simoncion on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:25PM (#44587483)
The RFC 4941 problem statement [0] notes that an attacker who can look at outgoing traffic from a network will not be thwarted by "privacy" addresses. The background section of that document goes on to say that "privacy" addresses do little-to-nothing to thwart correlation attempts against client networks that have few hosts on them.

IMO, something like what's described in RFC 7217 [1] (changing the interface identifier used for "permanent" addresses from the interface's MAC address to something that mixes in the advertised prefix) is a much better way to address the concerns described in section 2.3 of RFC 4941.

[0] <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4941#section-1.2>

[1] <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7217#section-4>

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