More word to nts.adoc

James Browning jamesb.fe80 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 21:01:27 UTC 2019


On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 12:30 PM Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org
wrote:

> 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.


Adding (a) cookie field(s) could allow interesting behavior such as client
migration tracking and forced key expiration after N rounds of NTP queries.

It might be worth considering for restrictions in draft 16.
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