Re: controversial paper

From: Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta_at_xortec.fi)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:06:03 +0300

Mxsmanic wrote:

> Douglas A. Gwyn writes:
>
>
>>That is an interesting claim, especially since it seems so
>>counterintuitive. Can you back it up?
>
>
> Look at how IPv6 addresses are being allocated. They'll be exhausted in
> no time. The same mistakes were made with IPv4. And you couldn't tell
> them back then, either--they always knew better. "There's no way that
> we'll ever exhaust this ... we have four billion addresses available!"
>
> As any cryptographer knows, an address space of n bits only provides 2^n
> addresses if they are assigned sequentially.

Huh? How could an address space of n bits provide more than 2^n addresses? 

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