Security of IPv6

Abstract

Network security specialists familiar with IPv4 protocol would gladly hope that the IPv6 protocol would easily solve the security problems we are having today in networks based on the IPv4 protocol. Well, the truth is as always somewhere in between. IP Security protocol or shortly IPsec, is the protocol which was developed for IPv6 protocol and is certainly adding significant level of security to it, but isn't solving all existing network security problems and it is at the same time with its flexibility introducing some new ones. Mobile IP protocol is built in the IPv6 protocol; however security solutions for it are still under development. Dynamic configuration flexibility of IPv6 is, if not properly used. This Thesis is explaining few security issues to which we are exposed in IPv6 network environments.