Implementing NTS options

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Feb 2 09:18:26 UTC 2019


Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> The RFC says the client needs to tell the NTS-KE all supported ciphers.
> It doesn't say it must support different ciphers for different servers.

Yeah, that second part *really* didn't make any sense to me.

So tell me: can we conform by *discovering* the cipher set at startup time
and shipping that list to NTS-KE?  Because if the RFCs don't for some
insane reason *forbid* that behavior, it's clearly the right thing.
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