Long range thoughts

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 03:26:51 -0800
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> There was discussion on the IETF NTP list of having the client use a
> separate port.  The idea is to make it harder to attack a client only
> system.  (There may be a draft RFC.)

That is just handwaving security by obscurity.  No matter what
port you put something on, nmap can find it trivially.

RGDS
GARY
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