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

[Brian Haberman]

Hi Danny & Dave,
      From my perspective, I think the description of the symmetric key 
handling in the NTPv4 protocol draft is clear.

Regards,
Brian


Danny Mayer wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> I'll let someone else pipe up about this with their view. It may just be me.
> 
> Danny
> David L. Mills wrote:
>> 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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