Internet screwed up?

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/5/2004 10:39 AM, I believe that Kurt Wall wrote:

> In a 0.4K blaze of typing glory, M.W. Chang wrote:
> 
>>>keys /etc/ntp.keys
>>>requestkey 15
>>>trustedkey 3 4 5 6 14
>>
>>what is this ntp.keys file?
> 
> 
> The keys are used to transmit time sync data securely.
> 

Is this overkill? Is there really a security issue with querying a time 
server in plain text?

This is the script I run at 2:05 every day:
#!/bin/bash
if rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu; then
   /sbin/hwclock --systohc
fi


Regards,
Tim