Sometimes Ignoring Time on Certificates (Was: Re: Docs we will need)

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Feb 6 17:34:28 UTC 2019


Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> On 2/5/19 7:49 PM, Richard Laager wrote:
> > I have a specific proposal that I'll hopefully write up tonight, which
> > may address the needs in this space.
> I did some brainstorming on this with a colleague. I initially started
> with an approach that would consider the system clock (if after
> BUILD_EPOCH), then the drift file (if after BUILD_EPOCH), then accept
> anything. But in the course of discussing it, I came up with something
> that is a lot simpler and easier to reason about.

Please add this as a new section to nts.adoc.
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