Let's get moving on NTS

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sun Jan 6 21:35:44 UTC 2019


Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Yo All!
> 
> I do not like this in nts.adoc:
> 
>     4 boxes.  My ASCII art is weak.  C for client, S for server.
> 
>        Bravo                       Delta
>        NTS client ---------------- NTS server
> 	  |                         |
>        Alpha                       Charlie
>        NTP client ---------------- NTP server
> 
> There are 3 'boxes' not 4.

Hal meant the four corners, I think.

>                            And let's use the RFC terms to avoid
> confusion.
> 
> 
>        client -------TLS----------- NTS-KE
>           |                           |
>           |                           ?
>           |                           |
>           \-------------------------NTPD
> 
> If we are going to assign first names, then use something that does not
> conflict with the names that the TLS component here is using.
> 
> What the NTS-KE shares with the NTPD is preliminarily defined in 
> the Proposed RFC Section 6.  How they share that (config file, TLS, 
> plain text, etc.) is still undefined.

Protocol: Go fix it.  And then tell us you why fixed it here so we can
move to the next round of wringle-wrangle.
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