[ntp:hackers] MS-SNTP

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Sat Mar 29 17:50:34 UTC 2008


Luke,

Can you confirm that the RID is hashed and that the hash can take up to 
31 bits?

Dave

Luke Howard wrote:

>
> 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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