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Re: [TICTOC] operational experience with NTP symmetric mode

Sharon Goldberg <goldbe@cs.bu.edu> Thu, 05 May 2016 16:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TICTOC] operational experience with NTP symmetric mode
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Note also that our network measurements have found evidence of symmetric
mode in the wild, and I am wondering why. Please see Section 5 of our paper:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/055.pdf



On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Sharon Goldberg <goldbe@cs.bu.edu> wrote:

> Dear WG,
>
> As part of the NTS effort, I think it would be helpful to understand the
> importance of symmetric peering mode.
>
> Can folks on this list please share their experience about using symmetric
> mode?  Do you use it, and if so why (or why not), and if so in what
> operational environment are you using it?
>
> Thanks,
> Sharon
>
> --
> Sharon Goldberg
> Computer Science, Boston University
> http://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe
>



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Sharon Goldberg
Computer Science, Boston University
http://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe

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