[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #867: use ipv6

Greg Troxel gdt at ir.bbn.com
Sat Feb 16 21:16:42 UTC 2013


Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> writes:

> Please do not forget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns and related, which
>
> cjdns addresses are the first 16 bytes (128 bits) of the SHA-512 of
> the public key. All addresses must begin with the byte 0xFC, which in
> IPv6 resolution, is a private address (so there is no collision with
> any external Internet addresses).

I'm not really clear on the cjdns situation, but simply not excluding
them (since most nodes don't have them anyway) seems good enough.  So if
the rule is only to drop fe80:: addresses, and 0xfc::/8 addresses are
included, that's ok with you?

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