[ntp:questions] ntp-keygen IFF

David Mills mills at udel.edu
Mon Jun 1 14:45:44 UTC 2009


Grzegorz,

Using -e and -q on the same command linke is very confusing.

Dave

DP MPGrzegorz Daniluk wrote:

>I know that you wrote the autokey does not work correctly in release 
>versions of ntp, but just to compare, please take a look what ntp-keygen 
>v4.2.4p7 prints out when using with '-e' option:
>%ntp-keygen -e -q serverpasswd -p clientpasswd > group.key
> %cat group.key
># ntpkey_IFFkey_NTS-MAILING.3452839997
># Mon Jun  1 10:17:23 2009
>-----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
>DEK-Info: DES-CBC,1D2DFBB832FEA76E
>
>25WSbcAIhKY5rSIqFnfkJ0Q7UTCTJZmsRMPXqf9uiUrQTzVO0tnm93D+fxgPvBVc
>bfyMF4YMN/U/tjgMEJFbHVwpkwuNjFab1wr2FqfK3R1Rkb3nkQaE8GMBpY+SZ2Ff
>WSwqqWJeYpQ5EuK5P3MZTEpWVjEqlAda0xBnbi4aQpNKyvFHVW+4WBhZMYdJrlMd
>M8CdLJtB1Cuoc+1nx8GOLyv1xLnP6At6G+3s5J43SGSB16aAfZEgRTDBQnMVGV3s
>BrJie38OoCXpDZFK3/NtbiHgnLPgGjdR70LdUufxlLT6iaCy4GSOLuoW2Ixc+yg0
>-----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>
>That, in fact looks like correctly exported crypto values for iff 
>scheme. As I wrote before, ntp-keygen in development version gives 
>something totally different that does not look like exported crypto 
>values and after redirecting by '>' gives empty file.
>
>Please advise,
>best regards,
>Grzegorz
>
>David Mills wrote:
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>>Grzegorz,
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>>I am using here exactly what I told you. You did not provide evidence 
>>you use the > redirect function to produce the paramters file. I have 
>>nothing more to tell you. I am done with this mission. You should ask 
>>for help elsewhere.
>>
>>Dave
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