Need for HW-clock independent timestamps

[Aaron Jones]

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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