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Re: [TLS] Server time

Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> Tue, 07 April 2015 20:21 UTC

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From: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Server time
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On 6 April 2015 at 13:45, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> If you really need a secure time source you either use NTPv4 security or run
> your own stratum 1.

How does NTPv4 security provide a secure time source (i.e. something I
can rely on as if it were stratum 1)?

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