NTS next steps

[James Browning]

On 2/5/19, Eric S. Raymond via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> 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.

Primitive record handling and non-workable stubs for cookie handling.
There is more in https://gitlab.com/jamesb_fe80/ntpsec/tree/libnts but
it needs to be rewritten and expanded and I am slow.