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Re: NTP Md5 or AutoKey?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Nov 4 01:39:31 2008

From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <ED736B98-9B9F-42CD-B3C3-807C2735B30E@daork.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:39:07 +0800
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org


On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Nathan Ward wrote:

> Anyway, pushing time out of sync seems an interesting way to break  
> services that require stuff to be synced up. Kerberos is one such  
> example.

The analytical/forensic fidelity of various forms of telemetry such as  
NetFlow, syslog, etc. is highly dependent upon an accurate time-hack,  
as well.

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