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Clarifying Processing Expectations for Packets with keyid 0 in the Network Time Protocol Version 4
draft-dfranke-ntp-keyid0-00

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Author Daniel Fox Franke
Last updated 2016-12-24 (Latest revision 2016-06-22)
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Abstract

This memo clarifies that when a Network Time Protocol Version 4 packet has a keyid field of zero, the MAC is present solely to satisfy certain syntactic constraints, and is to be ignored.

Authors

Daniel Fox Franke

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