devel@ntpsec.org said:
> I see no real blockers.  We've got a bunch of little nits and documentation
> issues.  I might try to push a fix for #446. 

There is no problem unless you setup your keys file to use an algorithm with 
a big digest.

The short term clean fix is to reject algorithms with too-big digests.  It's 
a few lines of code.  You can copy it from attic/digest-find.c

The simpler fix, 2 lines in 2 places, is to truncate the length at the place 
where it is used.  That will make bigger/better digests "work", but not the way 
you might expect and I don't want to document that tangle and we probably don't 
want to have anything to do with not-as-secure-as-you-expect.

The right fix is to actually support longer digests.  I think that requires 
getting an extension code from IANA.  I'd be willing to delay a release if we 
want to do that.  I'd expect days or weeks rather than months, but it might get 
tangled up with IETF work.  (There is current discussion in this area.)


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