Hi all

Just an update to close this thread.  I just saw that keyid of all 0 as MAC
is the crypto-nak and so will pursue that line of investigation.

Thanks
Srihari

On Tue, May 18, 2021, 3:41 PM Srihari Raghavan <srihari.ragha...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I was trying to get SHA1 based symmetric key authentication and MAC work
> with a standard Linux NTP server.
>
> I have root access to the Linux NTP server but the NTP server there is
> ALWAYS sending back replies with 'key id: 00000000' with no MAC in reply to
> an NTP client sending valid packets.
>
>    1. Linux test_ntp 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 9 16:53:14
>    UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>    2. ntpd 4.2.6p5 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
>    3. I have the following /etc/ntp/keys file as generated by 'ntpkeygen
>    -M'
>       1. # id    type    key
>       21 SHA1 bfe521e1c452d12885dd25ce889  #
>       <deliberately_truncated_for_this_msg>
>       4. openssl is supported - OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017
>    5. As seen in the attached images, the NTP client sends a key ID: 21
>    with a MAC, while the server ALWAYS replies with key ID:0 and no MAC.
>    6. Between the same server and client, MD5 configuration and MAC works
>    perfectly fine.
>
> I also saw that the RHEL version that I have, has the fixes for the
> following issue.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641800
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> Srihari
>
>
>
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