Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> wrote: > 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.
Yeah, I know, I should not have put "to" between the words "authenticating" and "server". It would be impossible to spoof a proper NTP setup where time is critical. If time is critical, a proper setup would have multiple servers as well as multiple independent, local sources like GPS and CDMA. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
