IEEE Spectrum, September, 1995: Excerpt on Net security from "Upgrading the Internet," a roundtable discussion of the Internet Society on the next generation of Internet protocols, IP Version 6. Discussants: Vinton Cerf, Stephen Deering, Christian Huitema, Haruhisa Ishida, Larry Landweber, Eric Schmidt, Lixia Zhang. A most important aspect of the IPv6 is the somewhat controversial decision to require that all v6 implementations support strong privacy and strong authentication. At this level, all of the security problems won't be solved, but we can authenticate and maintain privacy of packets that flow from one machine to another. This will eliminate many security threats in the current Internet, such as source-address-spoofing, source-related routing attacks, password sniffing, connection hijacking, and so on. New Scientist, Sept 9, 1995: "Watching you, watching us." Companies that sell electronic surveillance equipment to repressive regimes face the prospect of being "outed" on the Internet this autumn. Two electronic watchdogs, the British group Privacy International (PI) and its American sister organisation the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC), are setting up an offshore Internet site that will name companies that sell electronic instruments of repression to governments with poor records on human rights. IPI-pair: IP6_pi2 (13kb)