On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 04:35:59AM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> > [email protected] said:
> > > If I understand how NTS will be implemented correctly, the duration of
> the
> > > KE is proportional to the polling interval.
> >
> > It probably needs to be smarter than that.  If not, rekeying will take a
> long
> > time after the polling interval has ramped up.
>
> If the client is using a long polling interval, why would long NTS
> reinitialization be a problem?
>
> A missed NTP packet or client dropping a bad sample is a common
> occurence. For instance, the clock filter in ntpd can drop up to 7
> consecutive samples. A couple of samples dropped due to invalid
> authentication after the server refreshes its seed shouldn't be a big
> deal.
>

What if an NTS KE message is lost?  How will NTS recover and will it need
to wait an entire poll interval to do that?

Sharon
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