On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:06:50PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> 
> I'm (lightly for now) interested in securing the PTP protocol, and just had
> a glance at an attempt from Google:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-network-time-security-09
> 
> I'm sure some of you know about it, I'm less sure their solution works
> correctly with hardware timestamping (they seem to compute a hash from the
> whole packet). Is anybody familiar with this know if it should work ?

Well, a hash over the entire packet will not work with one-step,
obviously, unless done in HW.  But there is no difficulty when using
follow-up messages.

I did skim through that draft a while back, and it is hard to see how
it would work for PTP.  For example, the draft seems to mandate
unicast.

Anyhow, I would wait and see what, if anything, becomes the standard
for secure PTP.  After all, there is still is 1588 Annex K...

Thanks,
Richard




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