[ntp:questions] Private certificate authentication

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Sat Sep 8 15:40:44 UTC 2007


Mike,

Use -P -T options with the ntp-keygen program to generate parameters, 
keys and a private certificate. But, remember that the PC scheme is 
essentially a symmetric key scheme. Unless you have specific need for 
the PC scheme, you might use as well the MD5 symmetric key scheme.

Dave

Mike Toler wrote:
 > Does anyone know where I can find an example of using Private
 > Certificates for authentication of NTP servers (or can write a quick
 > example of how to set it up)?
 >
 > I've gone through every document I can find on NTP authentication, and
 > see it mentioned, but never really described in detail.
 >
 > Michael Toler
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