[Ntp] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG adoption (SUPPORT)

kristof.teichel@ptb.de Tue, 01 June 2021 21:14 UTC

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Subject: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG adoption (SUPPORT)
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Can you elaborate on how the details of timescale commensuration and the workings of plausibility intervals would be different here than in other aplications?


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An: kristof.teichel@ptb.de
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Betreff: Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG adoption (SUPPORT)

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 4:49 PM <kristof.teichel@ptb.de> wrote:
> I was definitely on that thread, I just didn't register this as a PTP security proposal specifically.
> It seems like this really would work just as well with GPS, or any GNSS, with any of the TESLA-secured modes (such as GPS Chimera and Galileo OS-NMA) instead of PTP.
> Or unsecured GNSS, or a radio clock like the DCF77 broadcast sender.
> It also seems like it would work with something like Roughtime instead of NTS4NTP.
>
> Personally, I believe this is a really important approach to follow up on.
> I'm just not sure that it is worth the effort to focus on NTS+PTP specifically and market that as a security solution for PTP... but that gut feeling could definitely be off.
> It just feels to me like it might be more interesting and fruitful (long-term) to make this into a generically applicable thing; I would be willing and able to contribute serious amounts of work to such an effort.

You're correct, the general approach of using an imprecise, secure
time source to clamp a precise, insecure one can be applied to many
combinations of the two. But the details of how to commensurate the
two timescales and compute intervals of plausibility would be
different so I'd rather just focus on one particular combination and
note the broader applicability in passing.

Do you want to be my co-author on this? I'll write the first draft.
You should rewrite the section that'll be heavy on IEEE1588-specific
details because I'll probably do a mediocre job with that, and then
you'd be welcome to expand it to cover any additional topics you think
are worth including.

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