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Re: [ntpwg] Fwd: Early Allocations for NTS drafts from the IETF NTP Working Group

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Tue, 15 March 2016 18:04 UTC

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stenn@ntp.org said:
>> No, you can't. There is no secret that could be used to create a
>> proper MAC yet.
> Yes we can,  with a symmetric key. 

If you have a symmetric key you don't need NTS.

It may be that the right approach is to dump NTS and use shared keys.  If so, 
we should be working on ways to distribute shared keys out of band from NTP 
proper.

Is there any reason to tightly couple distributing keys with NTP?


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