More word to nts.adoc

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Mon Jan 14 20:30:16 UTC 2019


Yo Hal!

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:19:09 -0800
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> When the NTP server is returning new cookies to the client, they are
> encrypted so that a spy can't track the client if it moves to a new
> IP Address before it uses the cookie.

I see nothing in the Proposed RFC that binds a cookie to an IP.  Good
thing, it is a bad idea.

RGDS
GARY
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