>>>>> "Curtis" == Curtis Villamizar <cur...@occnc.com> writes:
>> While talking about hardware. These these devices all need a
>> battery backed clock or all the crypto will be broken.
Curtis> Having a clock is not hard but I don't think your statement
Curtis> is true.
Curtis> Some crypto does not require time, but rather just entropy
Curtis> (a nonce or challenge). For crypto that does require time
Curtis> the former can be a bootstrap of sorts, possibly to get ntp
Curtis> going if very accurate time is needed (for some reason).
Curtis, Mark, as a DNSSEC implementer knows of what he speaks.
DNSSEC requires time. Not to the second or even minute, but at least
hour.
DNSSEC is a core protocol at this point, and we need to be aware of it.
It doesn't matter today, because we have a broken home DNS system, but
that's within homenet to fix.
Bootstraping time enough to get DNSSEC to work is important.
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