NTS keys as I understand them

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Achim!

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:54:03 +0100
Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Hal Murray via devel writes:
> >> BTW, the number eight is not arbitrary: that is exactly the number
> >> of packets a burst poll would use.   
> >
> > The normal case is that the client gets back a response before it
> > sends the next request in the burst, so it only needs 1 cookie to
> > start with.  
> 
> While I don't know what the rationale was for the RFC, it still makes
> sense to provide a client with enough cookies so it can fire off the
> initial burst w/o re-keying even if all responses get lost.

One is sufficient for that.  Cookie reuse is fine.

RGDS
GARY
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