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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