NTS next steps

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> > 2. Put together client-side NTS support.  This mainly means filling in
> >    ntpd/nts.c, as I have already written required the hooks into the
> >    protocol machine.
> 
> We need code to generate cookies.  And test code to pack, encrypt, decrypt, 
> and unpack.  (No byte swapping - we get back what we send.)
> 
> We need code to pack/unpack/byte swap extension fields, and authenticate 
> requests and check authentication and decrypt responses.
> 
> I will go look at your hooks to see if the API looks reasonable.

Also take a look at James Browning's npd/nts_libs.c.  Some of the utilities
you're talking about are in there.
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