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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:40:07 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ntpd replacement (Was: Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent)
Message-ID:  <45663.1393256407@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <530B666A.1000800@rewt.org.uk>
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In message <530B666A.1000800@rewt.org.uk>, Joe Holden writes:

>> Please check how NTP is authenticated before giving bad advice,
>> it's all in the RFC.
>>
>v3 or v4? It is an optional part of the spec in both cases and again 
>isn't required for 99% of people using ntpd as a client, which was the 
>entire point of this exercise in the first place.

Authentication of NTP is rapidly gaining focus these days, for obvious
reasons, so I think adopting software now which don't support it would
be needlessly shortsighted.

3 years ago I would have agree with you, but not now.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
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