First round of my stupid questions about NTS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Ian Bruene via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > Charlie requests a master key (and possibly initial cookies) daily
> > from Delta.
> 
> Cookies wouldn't be part of that. For a start "once a day" would have the
> cookies up to tens of thousands of packets out of date (assuming a packet
> every second for a client that joined just after the last NTPD-NTS sync).

Then what's *your* explanation for "We could also send the initial
cookies over that channel so that only NTP-server knows the cookie
format."
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