First round of my stupid questions about NTS
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Jan 17 21:05:23 UTC 2019
Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> But, that does bring up more questions. The Proposed RFC does not
> specify a cookie format. I suspect this is intentional so that the
> cookie can mutate over time.
>
> Things like encryption algorithm and hash algorithm will change over
> time. Also key sizes.
>
> So, how does the NTS-KE and NTPD server know what cookie format(s) are
> in use? How does the NTS-KE server know which cookie formats to issue
> for which NTPD servers?
That's a question for Daniel. I hope he'll answer it.
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