“Address ownership problem” in IPv6

Bo Wang

COMPSCI 725 TERM PAPER

IPv6 is used in more and more wide scope in current Internet world. But IPv6 
Addressing Architecture has a serious flaw, called address ownership problem [1], which could give rise to denial of service and other threat attacks if 
without the protection from the fully configured Ipsec, especially for mobile 
IPv6 network. The detail of several published possible authentication protocols 
are presented. Most of them were based on cryptograph of the authentication 
message by public key and/or hash function to verify each other and against any 
possible threat attacks. In this paper, the analysis and comparison of these 
mechanisms were offered in terms of the efficiency, easiness to implement and 
complexity of computation. And a better way to solve or alleviate the “address 
ownership problem” in IPv6 was expected.