[ntpwg] Problem with Symmetric Key in both NTPv4 and Autokey drafts

[David L. Mills]

Danny,

I thought the symmetric key description was clear from context. If you 
think otherwise, please feel free to modifiy the documents or provide 
markup.

Dave

Danny Mayer wrote:

> I have been reading the autokey draft and it mentions the symmetric key
> authentication referencing the NTPv3 RFC 1305. See P7 Section 3 item 1.
> However that RFC is obsoleted by both the NTPv4 draft and the autokey
> draft (though I'm not sure an Informational RFC can obsolete a standards
> track RFC). The NTPv4 draft mentions in Section 7.3 (P.17) that
> symmetric key it is described in the draft when it does not. It looks
> like we need to pull parts of RFC 1305 Appendix C into the NTPv4 draft
> if that's what needs to be copied. I missed this yesterday when going
> through the document.
>
> Sorry to hold things up, but that's an important piece of the NTPv4
> protocol.
>
> Danny
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