On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:22 AM Eric S. Raymond via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>
wrote:

> Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net>:
> > I remember a comment about there being no way to do broadcast securely.
> It
> > would be good to include an expanded version of that in the
> documentation.
>
> That's covered. In the page on NTPsec changes:
>
> * Broadcast- and multicast modes, which are impossible to
>   secure, have been removed.
>

Broadcast is insecure for the _client_, if I understand it correctly.  So
the broadcastclient directive being dropped makes perfect sense.

I was not sure if broadcast as a server was dropped for similar reasons.

I will begin a pass through the docs, reading and removing stuff.

Thanks
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