On 2011-03-25, j...@specsol.spam.sux.com <j...@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote:
> Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:26 PM, <j...@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote: >> >> >>> When I see questions like this my first response is "Why all the >>> bother?". >>> >>> There is nothing secret or proprietary about the time of day. >> >> Security is so that you know you are not being spoofed. Or if you are >> providing the time so that you can prove to your users that you are >> who you claim to be and are not spoofing them. > > The question was about clients authenticating to the server. NTP Authentication authenticates the server to the clients. It is not a client access control mechanism. -- Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
