First round of my stupid questions about NTS

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Achim!

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:50:46 +0100
Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> > Does this diagram look correct?  
> 
> No.  What the heck is an NTS client supposed to be?

A client that connects on the NTS-KE port to a NTS-KE server.

> The description
> in the file suggests it is the NTS-KE described in the RFC, so it
> clearly belongs to the server infrastructure (in fact it's the root
> of trust).

No, it is the end user client.

> There is no separation of NTS and NTP server either, an NTS server is
> supposed to answer plain NTP clients with the old style NTP packets. 

Uh, no.  Different port numbers.

> Yes, if you shard the service among different physical boxes that are
> supposed to have the same root of trust.

Where did sharding come from?  How would you see that?  Is that more
specific that just random pooling/load balancing?

RGDS
GARY
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