Bug 347761

Summary:	Port ntp to use NSS library for cryptography
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Component:	ntp	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	bob.lord, redhat-bugzilla, tmraz
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Description Peter Vrabec 2007-10-23 10:21:18 UTC

ntp should be ported to use NSS library for cryptography.
See the tracking bug for details and links on how it could be done.

Comment 1 Bob Lord 2008-08-27 20:56:07 UTC

What cryptographic operations does NTP use?

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-08-28 11:26:10 UTC

From openssl are used functions dealing with certificates, encrypting, decrypting, signing and verification.

An overview of NTP cryptography is here:
http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo-crypt.htm

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2014-08-25 14:43:32 UTC

I think it's time to close this bug, it looks like the crypto consolidation effort has stopped long time ago and porting ntpd to NSS won't be easy.