Does broadcast *server* mode still exist?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Aug 19 03:36:05 UTC 2019


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > That's covered. In the page on NTPsec changes:
> > * Broadcast- and multicast modes, which are impossible to
> >   secure, have been removed. 
> 
> I was looking for more information.  Why can't we secure it?

Daniel explained it to me once, but I've forgotten the details.
Perhaps he'll speak up.

> I'm not sad to see broadcast modes gone.  It was tangled up with a state machine which I never really understood.

And may no longer exist since Daniel's massive refactor of the protcol engine!
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