Re: [Ace] New Version Notification for draft-navas-ace-secure-time-synchronization-00.txt

Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@alumni.stanford.edu> Tue, 01 November 2016 00:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ace] New Version Notification for draft-navas-ace-secure-time-synchronization-00.txt
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Hi -


On 10/31/2016 7:25 AM, Renzo Navas wrote:
...
> The need for a secure source of time is getting clearer on ACE (either
> that, or mechanisms to assure freshness of each transaction), and we
> hope that with this protocol we are giving the first step to come up
> with a constrained-resource friendly solution.
...

Along the way to SNMPv3, we learned that a full-blown time
protocol isn't actually necessary to provide authentication,
timeliness, replay protection, etc.  See RFC 3414 for details
on how to get these properties cheaply, both from protocol
overhead and processing perspectives.

Randy