Re: [Ntp] Roughtime and Delay Attacks

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 02 April 2019 15:26 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Roughtime and Delay Attacks
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kristof.teichel@ptb.de <kristof.teichel@ptb.de> wrote:

> - Roughtime (AFAIK) still needs to include some considerations of RTT in
> its analysis somehow (see below).

Maybe roughtime clients should use the Chronos clock selection algorithm,
because it is supposed to be resistant to delay attacks.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-schiff-ntp-chronos-02

Tony.
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