[ntp:hackers] Autokey weedwack
Brian Utterback
Brian.Utterback at Sun.COM
Mon Dec 24 15:25:17 UTC 2007
David L. Mills wrote:
> documentation HTML pages have been rewriten. The source code
> documentation has for ntp_crypto.c and ntp-keygen.c has been revised.
> Disregard the ntp-keygen program on-line options display and man page,
> which are largely irrelevant and erroneous in places. Especially do not
> use the configuration file save/restore feature, which is highly
> dangerous relative to the way the options are designed to be used and
> could result in unintended update of previously downloaded keys. The
> ntp-keygen and authentication options pages have details and examples.
>
If the save and load features of libopts are toxic for ntp-keygen, then
those options should just
be disabled.
Brian Utterback
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