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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/17/19 11:35 AM, Eric S. Raymond
via devel wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:20190117173555.80A743A4AB0@snark.thyrsus.com">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I see no Bravo-to-Alpha initiation of requests, though there are
responses heading in that direction.
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I think everyone has been treating Alpha and Bravo as the same
entity.<br>
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cite="mid:20190117173555.80A743A4AB0@snark.thyrsus.com">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Similarly, I see no Delta-to-Bravo initiation of requests, though there are
responses heading in that direction.
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Correct.<br>
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cite="mid:20190117173555.80A743A4AB0@snark.thyrsus.com">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Charlie requests a master key (and possibly initial cookies) daily
from Delta. </pre>
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Cookies wouldn't be part of that. For a start "once a day" would
have the cookies up to tens of thousands of packets out of date
(assuming a packet every second for a client that joined just after
the last NTPD-NTS sync).<br>
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Secondly NTPD doesn't need the cookies, all it needs to handle a
cookie is the master key.<br>
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cite="mid:20190117173555.80A743A4AB0@snark.thyrsus.com">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Is there any plausible scenario in which Charlie and
Delta must run on different hosts?
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It is implied in the draft that a single NTS node may provide key
exchange services for more than one NTPD server.<br>
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