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Funny enough, one of the arguments for longer key lengths now is to save memory. With IPV4 the way it is now, the address space is very fragmented so you need
by elihu 3y ago
Funny enough, one of the arguments for longer key lengths now is to save memory. With IPV4 the way it is now, the address space is very fragmented so you need a lot of router table entries. More available address space means more contiguous address blocks and therefore fewer router table entries.
That wasn't an issue back when IPv4 was being defined though.
- convolvatron 3y agoThe issue here isn’t the size of the address, but the way it’s allocated and managed. Since the provider block routing scheme was carried forward while cloth - realistically the most were going to get is a deprecation of the really tiny blocks - ‘the swamp’.