First round of my stupid questions about NTS

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:05:23 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> 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.

If he wanted to answer it then he would have included it in the Proposed
RFC.  They specifically declined to do so.  It is up to us now.

RGDS
GARY
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