First round of my stupid questions about NTS

[Hal Murray]

Gary said:
>> Suppose you want to change the cookie format.
> Why would you?  Without knowing how much it would change
> your have to assume that the whole thing gets thrown out, and
> reinvented.

Because you asked:
> 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 was tangled up in a discussion of generating cookies on the NTS-KE server 
in parallel with generating them on the NTP server.  In the normal case, there 
is only one cookie format wired into both.  The way to make the which-format 
question interesting would be to change the format on the fly, so I described 
a way to do that.


> Yes, as Section 6 of the Proposed RFC suggests:

That's not a detailed spec, just an outline.  We might decided to change the 
size of a field.  Not likely, but worth thinking about.


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