Re: [secdir] secdir review of Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-ntp-extension-field-05.txt

Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com> Wed, 20 January 2016 16:28 UTC

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Status: ready for launch

Version 6 introduced additional text for the security considerations section, which I like.

spt

> On Nov 02, 2015, at 03:52, Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com> wrote:
> 
> This version addresses my main concerns.
> 
> Not sure what you’re going to do with this though, but I guess that another draft’s problem:
> 
>> On Sep 17, 2015, at 02:02, Danny Mayer <mayer@pdmconsulting.net> wrote:
>> 
>> We probably need to update the dgest field in RFC5905 to make it clear
>> that it can have multiple lengths depending on the algorithm used. On
>> the other hand I would prefer to get rid of the MAC and turn it into an
>> extension field, assuming that the NTS/CMS scheme is not used. The
>> advantages of that is obvious especially as no guessing would be
>> required and we could specify the algorithm to use and you could have
>> multiple MAC extension fields that would cover different parts of the
>> packet.
> 
> spt