RFC 9416: Security Considerations for Transient Numeric Identifiers Employed in Network Protocols

Poor selection of transient numerical identifiers in protocols such as the TCP/IP suite has historically led to a number of attacks on implementations,…

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Outgoing relationships (15 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 3552: Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Informative reference — RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 7258: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
Informative reference — RFC 6056: Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization
Informative reference — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Informative reference — RFC 7721: Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms
Informative reference — RFC 6528: Defending against Sequence Number Attacks
Informative reference — RFC 7707: Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks
Informative reference — RFC 7739: Security Implications of Predictable Fragment Identification Values
Informative reference — RFC 6274: Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol Version 4