Usefuleness of noval

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Mar 27 22:57:16 UTC 2019


Richard Laager  said:
> Does NTS with noval actually buy us anything over plain NTP?

It's handy for debugging.

It breaks security if the bad guy can do a MITM.

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I was thinking along the same lines.  Should we have a command line switch, 
say "--secure", that requires nts (without noval) or shared key on all 
servers?  Or make that the default, and require --insecure for testing.



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