6DEPLOY - IPv6 Deployment and Support

NSA ponies up to secure IPv6

Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - :26 AM

Topic: 6DEPLOY
Posted by: Jordi

The National Security Agency, known to provide incentives for development or testing of security products, is spending upward of $30 million to ensure IP Version 6 is secure enough to be used on classified networks.

And that is only half the amount that will go into developing High-Assurance IP Encryptor Interoperability Specification (HAIPE IS) Version 3 software to, among other things, protect IPv6 traffic.

Complete info at GCN.

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