First round of my stupid questions about NTS

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 19:05:35 -0800
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Gary said:
> > And what cookie format is that?  How will we manage future changes
> > to that cookie format?   
> 
> > Just look to the SSL/TLS mess for how upwardly compatible change in
> > crypto can be badly managed.   
> 
> That's a public API.  The cookie format is private.

Uh.  lost me?

> Things may get more interesting if you want to decouple NTS-KE and
> NTP

The Proposed RFC assumes that, so we are stuck.  This will all be
a library that NTS-KE and NTPD clients and servers use.

> and make those interfaces public.

That can wait for when the RFC editors stop dodging the issue.

RGDS
GARY
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