NTS keys as I understand them

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Mon Jan 14 20:36:50 UTC 2019


Yo Achim!

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:32:29 +0100
Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> BTW, the number eight is not arbitrary: that is exactly the number of
> packets a burst poll would use.

Why would a client waste all is cookies at once?  Since they can be
reused until the NTPD returns a NACK this seems to ddefeat the benefit
of keeping spare cookies around.

RGDS
GARY
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