Is the Internet the next generation will be safer? According to Brian Carpenter: Yes, although this will not merit more users. Head of the IETF (International Association, an association of engineers interested in setting technical standards and practices in the Internet) in an interview with PC World Online says that it is instead used the products, protocols, and services become sufficiently mature to be able to provide users with a greater sense of confidence while surfing on the Web. Not without significance here is the implementation of IPv6, which includes several improvements, favorable from a safety standpoint.
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IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) brings together engineers involved in the technical aspect of the network, including the Internet. It is through this organization we can work at home without much trouble to build a network, receive mail using POP3 or send an e-mail using SMTP.
One of the most promising innovations is the IETF IPv6. Recall - IP underlies virtually all communications, using Internet. Meanwhile, in the nineties it became clear that the possibility of IPv4 is slowly being depleted - the protocol provide only 4.3 billion addresses (2 to the power 32), of which, however, can be practically used about 250 million. After reaching this limit could not be linking to the Internet is any further device!
remedy was to become the sixth version of the IP protocol, IPv6, that provides the space up to 340 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 addresses (2 to the power 128). With IPv6, each machine can have your address and no one has to worry about exhausting the pot.
However IPv6 is not adopted it as quickly as hoped - it turned out that the temporary solution (eg NAT) temporarily solved the problem of exhausting the pool. Therefore we decided to ask Brian Carpenter, and imagines the future of networks and how he sees in them the presence of IPv6 ...
PC World Online: The Lord's words, quoted in the material, " next-generation Internet " shows that you are rather optimistic about the development and prevalence of Internetu oraz świadomości użytkowników. Czy jednak warto wierzyć w zdrowy rozsądek internautów?
Brian Carpenter: Moje poprzednie słowa nie oznaczały, że oczekuję, iż każdy z użytkowników zostanie specjalistą do spraw bezpieczeństwa. Miałem na myśli raczej, że produkty, protokoły i usługi staną się bezpieczniejsze wraz z upływem czasu.
Microsoft czy Apple walczą o to, by komputery stały się bardziej intuicyjne w obsłudze, bardziej przyjazne dla użytkownika. Zatem nawet sześcioletni chłopiec (czy szećdziesięcioletni mężczyzna) can run media player and the text editor without any specific knowledge of all these extensions and registers. Where is the place for security?
can not be responsible for individual companies. But as I said before: I think that used by people with time tools to become more resistant to security problems .
Why IPv6 comes onto the market so slow? I do not use this protocol, my ISP does not use it, nay, do not even know if this version is supported in my corner of the net!
did not expect that IPv6 will be implemented quickly - its adoption will be gradual. At this time, most well-known products such as routers used by ISPs already supports IPv6 in its standard configuration. Naturally, it will be a few more years before the Protocol to circulate.
Do you really think that IPv6 provides greater security?
never thought so. In IPv6 there are a few great improvements from the standpoint of safety, but they are not the main reason behind it [IPv6 - ed] in favor. Is such reason, however, possible to obtain comprehensive enough address space to satisfy the whole world.
When each device in the world will have its own unique IP address, will be easy to scan the entire web with a single line of code. What then are all those devices connected to networks with a simple TCP / IP stack (refrigerators, telephones, air conditioning).
true. Remember that IPv6 does not rise to the square of addresses has - he claims twice the square. The time required to examine the whole address space is exceedingly long. Scanning is perhaps to be done in the case of IPv4, but not unthinkable to IPv6. As to the equipment with which you ask - if they are protected in case of IPv4 and IPv6 will be safe.
CERN is a place where stood the Internet and WWW. Can you confirm that TCP / IP won the battle at CERN because of good, widely used in the implementation of BSD systems?
First of all it is worth noting that the Internet itself was born in the ARPANET project in the U.S. (we refer to RFC 2235). As for the BSD can not be responsible for CERN, even though I worked there. But it is true that in the eighties, CERN had hoped to standardize the protocols defined by ISO OSI - unfortunately, it was difficult due to lack of software. So we changed direction and we have relied on BSD systems (which did not so they called). Certainly, the availability of TCP / IP on Berkeley Unix and SunOS - and many other operating system - has been an important factor in decision-making about choice.
And the last question: what do you think about the vision of the future presented in the movie "Ghost in the Shell"? Is it possible that within a few years, each user be able to plug in the network without buying a computer or phone, and using only a chip implanted in the brain?
do not watch sci-fi.