[ntp:questions] Symmetric Key samples

Joe Smithian joe.smithian at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 15:32:18 UTC 2011


The key types A,S,N and M are defined in the NTP 4.1.2 ntp-keygen document:
http://doc.ntp.org/4.1.2/genkeys.htm.
They have been removed in NTP 4.2.0. There is nothing in the release note
about removing those keys. So it seems that only MD5, SHA and SHA1
symmetric key types are supported in 4.2.6p3; right?

My understanding of the Authentication document is that the "crypto digest
name" in the ntp.conf specifies the digest algorithm only for Autokey
authentication, not  for symmetric authentication. Is that right?

Should the digest name in  the "crypto digest name" match with the type of
certificate scheme  used when generating keys with ntp-keygen -c?

Thanks


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> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org> wrote:
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>> On 2011-12-08, Joe Smithian <joe.smithian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > A,N,S, and M keys are defined in the man ntp.keys
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>> > http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=ntp.keys
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>> I have the current ntp-dev installed and:
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>> $ man ntp.keys
>> No manual entry for ntp.keys
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>> Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
>> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/
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