IPv6 Security Myth: No NAT Means No Security

February 04, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Common Sense, Communications, Compute Infrastructure, Cryptography, Data Security, Encryption, ICANN, IANA, Information Security, Internet Governance, IPSec, Network Protocols, Network Security, Networks, Signals

Astoundingly, myths still arise in this epoch of science, strangely so, when dealing with new technologies [Read: new means new in the final two years of the last century as IPv4 was originally codified by the IETF in 1981, with the acceptance of RFC 791] - in this case the vaunted move to IPv6. Now, arising from the ashes of IPv4 exhaustion hysteria, comes a current popular myth surrounds the utilization NATs in IPv4 and the lack of a counterpart construct in IPv6.

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