[ntp:questions] ntp-keygen IFF

David Mills mills at udel.edu
Mon May 18 18:49:35 UTC 2009


Grzegorz,

With reference to the documentation, you act as a trusted agent (TA) to 
generate cryptographic media for a trusted host  (TH) whose name is 
specifiied in the -s option of ntp-keygen.

Dave

Grzegorz Daniluk wrote:

>Hi,
>did anybody try to generate keys and certificate for IFF scheme using 
>ntp-keygen, but outside the server that will use it ? or maybe it is not 
>possible ?
>E.g. I need to generate keys and signed certificate on my computer for 
>another server (lets say whose hostname is 'A'). Then I tried like this:
>
>ntp-keygen -T -I -s A -p serverpasswd
>and then exporting group key:
>ntp-keygen -e -q serverpasswd -p clientpasswd > group.key
>
>after this I've sent created files (without group.key) to the server 'A' 
>and used ntp-keygen and group.key to create keys on client as described 
>on support.ntp.org
>
>however, after running ntp on those machines (both stable ntp-4.2.4p7) 
>with debugging (-d) option server A says:
>May 18 13:41:22 A ntpd[74185]: report_event: err 
>'bad_or_missing_certificate' (0x10d), no peer
>
>and of course client fails to query server A.
>
>When I've generated self-signed certificate and keys on the server A 
>(then running ntp-keygen without '-s' option) everything works fine.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>Best Regards,
>Grzegorz Daniluk
>
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