[ntp:hackers] ntp Authentification support for X.509v3 against
a Certificate Authority (CA)
Danny Mayer
mayer at ntp.isc.org
Wed Jun 21 12:16:59 UTC 2006
Laatz, Erek wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> we want to set up a larger environment for around 60 NTP servers in Germany.
> All these hosts will have the ability to use system specific X509v3
> certificates issued by a CA. Our idea is to use these certificates also for ntp
> authentification as we have the requirement to use some kind of
> authentification within the ntp installations.
>
> I've looked in several sources but found no idea how to realize a certificate
> verification against a CA, even found no special hint on how to realize it
> within the autokey protocol.
>
> Is there anyone who have an idea how to realize a X.509v3 certificate
> verification against a CA?
>
> Best gregards, Yours
>
> Erek
Dave Mills is the best person to answer these questions but he's not on
this list, so I have added him to this reply. Have you looked at the
autokey protocol for details about how it works?
Danny
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