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From: Aaron Jones <aaronmdjones@gmail.com>
To: neumann@cgws.de
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Need for HW-clock independent timestamps
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 19:41:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489c2f57-574a-1223-9c4d-266904e52c94@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <793381ba-b59d-50e4-6d7b-cbe9bef91ba1@cgws.de>


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On 12/05/18 19:29, Axel Neumann wrote:
> You want WG to secure your network. So the suggestion can not be to open
> your network for a pretty insecure deamon in order to get WG working.
> This would essentially allow attackers to a fake the ntp server and then
> block WG forever.

Someone in a position to fake NTP (which needs bidirectional
communication) is already in a position to block WG forever (by simply
refusing to forward its packets).

Additionally, there are a few very well-designed and secure NTP daemons
out there (such as OpenNTPd).

-- 
Aaron Jones




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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-12 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-11 22:07 WG: Need for HW-clock independent timestamps Axel Neumann
2018-05-11 22:45 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-12  0:05   ` Glen Bojsza
2018-05-12 19:29   ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-12 19:41     ` Aaron Jones [this message]
2018-05-15 20:21       ` Devan Carpenter
2018-05-15 20:49         ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-16  7:10           ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 19:32           ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-16 20:32             ` Steve Gilberd
2018-05-17  3:40               ` Paul
2018-05-17  5:03                 ` Roman Mamedov
2018-05-17  5:53                   ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-17  7:07                     ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-17  8:28                       ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 20:35             ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-12 22:10     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-12 23:05     ` Reuben Martin
2018-05-13  6:11     ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-13 12:37       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-16  7:01         ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-16  9:38           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-16 11:08             ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 11:12             ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-13 14:21   ` Wang Jian
2018-05-21 10:07 ` WG: " Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 11:22   ` Reto Brunner
2018-05-21 11:52     ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 12:31       ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 12:35       ` Reto Brunner
2018-05-21 13:53         ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-21 14:56           ` Bruno Wolff III
2018-05-21 15:34             ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-22 20:25               ` Ivan Labáth
2018-05-23  2:51                 ` Matthias Urlichs
2019-02-04 14:56                 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-02-23  4:00                   ` Axel Neumann
2019-02-23 12:35                     ` Ivan Labáth
     [not found] <1324673763.992877.1526187430298.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-05-13  4:57 ` reiner otto
2018-05-13 12:35   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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