NTS update

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Wed Mar 20 23:56:06 UTC 2019


Yo Hal!

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:53:05 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> >> As long as the old cookies on the client are used in NTP packets
> >> soon enough and hence traded in for new cookies, there is no need
> >> for a NTS-KE type rekey.  
> 
> > Yeah, I had missed that.  So I agree your concept looks good so
> > far.   
> 
> Not my concept.  Straight out of the book.  (draft?)

No, the draft suggest s ratchet.  You are not doing a ratchet.

> > But the NTS-KE master key (K) has to match the NTPD master key (K).
> > So they are one and the same effect.   
> 
> That's easy when they are running in the same process.

And hard when we have to go beyond that.  Remember the use case is
one NTS-KE to many NTPD.

RGDS
GARY
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