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Re: [Ntp] [internet-drafts@ietf.org: New Version Notification for draft-gruessing-ntp-ntpv5-requirements-02.txt]

Danny Mayer <mayer@pdmconsulting.net> Tue, 15 June 2021 17:19 UTC

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From: Danny Mayer <mayer@pdmconsulting.net>
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] [internet-drafts@ietf.org: New Version Notification for draft-gruessing-ntp-ntpv5-requirements-02.txt]
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On 6/15/21 8:58 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 02:25:21PM -0400, Danny Mayer wrote:
>>> - "Encryption and authentication MUST be provided by the protocol
>>>      specification as a default"
>>>
>>>     It's not clear to me what the default means here. That it is enabled
>>>     by default in all implementations that support it?
>> We should certainly NOT be doing encryption on an NTP packet? What are you
>> trying to hide? Timestamps are obsolete almost before you use them and there
>> is nothing confidential about them. Authentication IS important and should
>> be secured by protocols like NTS or MAC's or (let me say it anyway!)
>> Autokey.
> Encryption is needed for privacy. It's an NTS feature. It encrypts
> cookies in server responses to prevent a passive observer from
> matching client requests using the cookies.

On the cookie, it's okay as long as it's not the whole packet.

Danny

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