What's left to doo on NTS

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Mar 2 17:52:49 UTC 2019


Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > > The way Mark explained it to me, you want one NTS-KE per aisle, or
> > > per rack.  That limits the number of servers, with keys, that need
> > > to be protected.  
> > 
> > I now think this plan is a mistake and that Hal did the right thing by
> > building key service into ntpd itself.
> 
> The opinion that counts is that of Cisco.  Anyone asked them?

It hasn't come up. I get the impression their requirements list is not
that fine-grained.

> > If you don't trust that your LAN is secured enough to do that, you
> > can't trust it enough to pass NTS-KE traffic over it either.
> 
> Not the LAN, your containers.

I don't understand that.
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