> On 28 Mar 2020, at 23:58, Harlan Stenn <st...@nwtime.org> wrote: > >> Steven Sommars said: >>> The secure time transfer of NTS was designed to avoid >> amplification attacks. > > Uh, no.
Yes, it was. As Steven said, “The secure time transfer of NTS was designed to avoid amplification attacks”. I would even say - to make it impossible to use for amplification attacks. > If you understand what's going on from the perspective of both the > client and the server and think about the various cases, I think you'll > see what I mean. Hopefully, no-one exposes mode 6 or mode 7 on the internet anymore at least not unauthenticated, and at least not the commands that are not safe from amplification attacks. Those just can not be allowed to be used anonymously. > NTS is a task-specific hammer. Yes. Ragnar
