[ntp:questions] IFF autokey issue

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.isc.org
Tue May 8 22:08:35 UTC 2007


On 2007-05-08, Garrett Wollman <wollman at bimajority.org> wrote:
> In article <slrnf41h14.te9.kostecke at stasis.kostecke.net>,
> Steve Kostecke  <kostecke at ntp.isc.org> wrote:
>
>>There is no Central Scrutinizer who decrees whether or not a server is
>>"authentic" or "trusted".
>>
>>The entity generating the host parameters marks them as trusted by using
>>the '-T' switch during the generation process.
>
> It is not up to the server operator whether clients should believe
> some random self-signed "certificate" proffered by a server (or
> someone masquerading as a server).

???

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Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.isc.org>
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