Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Is this supported or possible in Windows 2000? >>> >>> I've managed to edit the registry to point at my local NTP server and >>> this works fine. The NTP host supports MD5 authentication and, >>> ideally, I'd like the Windows 2000 client to use this when requesting >> >from the NTP server. >> >> >> The question doesn't make much sense. Why would you want to encrypt the >> request? What are you trying to hide? >> >> Danny > > Perhaps the OP meant that he would like the client to be able to > ascertain that the server really is the server he configured. Isn't > that, after all, the purpose of authentication? >
Authentication, maybe. Encryption no. They are not related to each other. > But perhaps this is too much to expect from Windows. No. Windows can do both encryption (see the OpenSSL libraries as well as Microsoft's) and can do authentication (see Autokey). Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
