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Subtract 588 million reserved IPs, as well as 2 from each subnet (0 and 255). There are also a lot of blocks that are publicly routable but see no use on the i
by woodman 10y ago
Subtract 588 million reserved IPs, as well as 2 from each subnet (0 and 255). There are also a lot of blocks that are publicly routable but see no use on the internet. If I were to build a rainbow table, I'd start with blocks assigned to ISPs, then throw in the results of publicly available distributed internet surveys, only then would I start the algorithmic address generation. Same story for IPv6. I really don't think it is a state actor level problem, but if it is it won't be for long.
- kyledrake 10y agoRight, no I agree, except that the rainbow table won't work if you used a salt. You'll need to brute force it for that particular salt value. Still quite doable, if you have the right resources at hand. As you pointed out, it's less than the entire IPv4 space too.