Miroslav Lichvar be8215e181 ntp: minimize data in client mode packets ...

In basic client mode, set the origin and receive timestamp to zero.
This reduces the amount of information useful for fingerprinting and
improves privacy as the origin timestamp allows a passive observer to
track individual NTP clients as they move across networks. (With chrony
clients that assumes the timestamp wasn't reset by the chronyc offline
and online commands.)

This follows recommendations from the current version of IETF draft on
NTP data minimization [1].

The timestamp could be theoretically useful for enhanced rate limiting
which can limit individual clients behind NAT and better deal with DoS
attacks, but no server implementation is known to do that.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-data-minimization-01

2017-08-09 09:57:13 +02:00

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