[ntp:questions] Authentication

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Tue Mar 20 02:52:17 UTC 2007


Hal Murray wrote:
>> Many sites run without authentication.  Others need to be able to prove 
>> that their time stamps are traceable to NIST or some comparable national 
>> standards agency in another country.  Such sites need authentication.
> 
> How many of the national standards laboratories support authentication?
> 
> I took a quick poke with google and didn't find any public
> keys from NIST.  (I could easily have missed them.)
> 

They may not want to give out keys to everyone. Just because nothing is
posted doesn't mean that they don't have.  Almost noone makes these
things public.

Danny



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