[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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