[ntpwg] [ntp:hackers] MS-SNTP

[Luke Howard]

> You bring up a most interesting point. My fear is a violent trainwreck
> between the Autokey key space and what I have been told the MS-SNTP  
> key
> space. Because on Autokey pseudo-random key generation and hash  
> chains,
> shrinking the key ID space much would create crippling collisions. On
> the other hand, I understand the RID space is in the order of 500,  
> which
> is far below the symmetric key pivot of 65535. If the MS-SNTP key ID
> space could fit below the pivot, that problem would disappear
> completely. On the other hand, MS-SNTP key space might work if the  
> pivot
> point were increased from 2^16 to 2^18.


Yes, but because of endian-ness issues, MS-SNTP key 0 is actually  
2^32-1.

My original patch supported configurable partitioning of key space.

-- Luke


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