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[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> [extension fields]
> > That sounds uncomfortably plausible.  I can think of a workaround: add a
> > padding extension long enough that the packet can't have any of the magic
> > lengths. 
> 
> Here is the RFC on that area.
> 
> Network Time Protocol Version 4 (NTPv4) Extension Fields
> March 2016
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7822

I've read that.  I've even implemented it myself once, in the Python protocol
back end.  Is there advice in there that I missed on how to avoid magic-length
interactions?
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