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Privacy considerations for IP broadcast and multicast protocol designers
draft-winfaa-intarea-broadcast-consider-03

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Rolf Winter , Michael Faath , Fabian Weisshaar
Last updated 2017-03-27 (Latest revision 2016-09-15)
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Abstract

A number of application-layer protocols make use of IP broadcasts or multicast messages for functions such as local service discovery or name resolution. Some of these functions can only be implemented efficiently using such mechanisms. When using broadcasts or multicast messages, a passive observer in the same broadcast domain can trivially record these messages and analyze their content. Therefore, broadcast/multicast protocol designers need to take special care when designing their protocols.

Authors

Rolf Winter
Michael Faath
Fabian Weisshaar

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