[oe] Question about ntp build option

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 05 January 2015 14:33:59 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Fan,
> 
> On Friday 28 November 2014 06:05:36 Fan, Xin wrote:
> > I wonder that why the ntp uses the without-openssl build option and
> > disables the openssl by default.
> > 
> > In my opinion, the ntp needs openssl to support public key cryptography
> > and
> > it should be enabled by default.
> 
> I set it up this way originally because I didn't figure SSL to be that
> important for a protocol like ntp for the common case. To my mind, it
> depends on what you are doing with time on the system which is being
> synchronised - if you are only using it to display a clock somewhere for
> the user, the security of the connection to the ntp server isn't really
> that important vs. avoiding the dependency on another library. If on the
> other hand you are writing logs or you are using a time-sensitive protocol
> such as Kerberos on the same system then you might want to consider
> enabling it.
> 
> There will always be differences in how people expect software to be
> configured for whatever target and application they are building for, hence
> why we make it fairly easy to adjust the configuration. In this case you
> only need to set your own PACKAGECONFIG value for ntp to include "openssl"
> and SSL support will be enabled.

(I should have added, my apologies for the very late reply).

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre