Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

["Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

On 9/20/07, James R. Cutler <james.cutler () consultant com> wrote:
>  Kerberos does not assume clock synchronization.
> Kerberos requires reasonable clock synchronization.
> And, as near as I can tell, clock synchronization is not part of the
> Kerberos protocol.
>
> Kick me if I err in this.
>
>         Cutler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%28protocol%29#Kerberos_drawbacks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%2528protocol%2529#Kerberos_drawbacks>

"Kerberos requires the clocks of the involved hosts to be synchronized. The
tickets have time availability period and, if the host clock is not
synchronized with the clock of Kerberos server, the authentication will
fail. The default configuration requires that clock times are no more than
10 minutes apart. In practice,
NTP<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol>daemons are
usually employed to keep the host clocks synchronized."