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I have said for the last decade or so whenever IPV6 comes up on HN that IPV6 was way too big of an address space for anything but having some sort of unique ide
by narrator 3y ago
I have said for the last decade or so whenever IPV6 comes up on HN that IPV6 was way too big of an address space for anything but having some sort of unique identifier in there to support an online digital ID. Like some space for a hash of a biometric or something in the lower 64 bits.
- greyface- 3y agoYou may be interested in IPv6 CGAs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_Generated_Address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_Generated_Ad... https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3972 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3972
- jandrese 3y agoAbout a decade ago I worked on a project for secure networks where machines would encode identity information into the lower 64 bits of an IPv6 network and security devices could use that to enforce policy based on your identity, not your machine. The most interested customer, the government, had the problem of having way too much IPv4 space and little incentive to upgrade so it never went anywhere. Even after the government mandates to switch to IPv6, which mostly just ended up with loads of IPv4 only government websites behind Cloudflare gateways.