[ntpwg] [ntp:hackers] MS-SNTP

Luke Howard lukeh at padl.com
Sat Mar 29 00:12:12 UTC 2008


On 29/03/2008, at 5:43 AM, David L. Mills wrote:
> Luke,
>
> Note the pivot partions on the basis of value, not assigned bit  
> fields.
> This is done specificatlly to give Autokey a large fraction of the
> space. Walling of the space seperately by fields would defeat that  
> purpose.
>
> I don't understand your comment about zero and endian. A little endian
> zero is identical to a big endian zero.


My bad. Let me rephrase: Microsoft's encoding of RIDs as key IDs is in  
the incorrect byte order.

I can confirm this from my experience building an implementation of  
this.

-- Luke


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