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Re: NTP Md5 or AutoKey?

  • From: Roland Dobbins
  • Date: Tue Nov 04 01:39:27 2008


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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