?ntpdig and NTS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> >> Does ntpdig know about NTS?  Seems like it should be able to ue NTS.
> > That would be pretty tricky, actually.  We'd have to expose the NTS crypto
> > and key-exchange primitived as a C extension to Python. 
> 
> Another possibility...
> 
> On my back burner, is a pair of NTS-KE programs, one for server and the other 
> for client.  The idea is simple code and lots of printout, sample code and 
> such.  Mostly, the sort of thing I was looking for when I started trying to 
> write code.
> 
> It would be reasonable to have the client side write out the keys and cookies. 
>  Then you would have to expose the crypto routines.

Yeah, but I'm not sure it would be efficient to pull the trigger on anything like
this until we figure out how many months out the Go port is.

Which means it's time for a serious on-list conversation about what our next
major objective beyond wrapping up NTS is.  Which in turn ties to questions
about what we think we can get funding for from Cisco and possibly other 
patrons.

I'll start a thead about that soon.

(Maybe not as immediately as I normally would, though.  I had surgery on
my right ankle last week and am in recovery.  Able to work, but sleeping
more than usual.)
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>