On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:43:52AM +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
perhaps a simple question, but it kept me awake all night and google didn't help either..
Most services have a ssl/tls equivalent, like http, imap, ldap. But how about an ssl/tls version of ntp?
How can i know for certain that a time server is who he claims to be?
Or am i looking for something impossible?? There are situations where a gps-receiver is not feasable.
NTP does have cryptography support, authentication, symmetric and assymetric encryption. I have however not set it up personally, but there is "ntp-doc" with HTML docu in /usr/share/doc/packages/ntp-doc/ and likely web documentation how to do it. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org