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Fix NTP Authenticator parsing for non-MD5 digests (SHA1, SHA256, SHA512)#4917

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NTP Authenticator fields were hardcoded to MD5's 16-byte digest size, causing misaligned parsing for SHA1/SHA256/SHA384/SHA512 MACs. The _NTPAuthenticatorPaddingField always assumed a 20-byte tail (4 key_id + 16 MD5 digest), so for e.g. SHA1 (24 bytes total), the first 4 bytes of digest were consumed as padding, key_id read digest bytes, and dgst was truncated.

  • _NTPAuthenticatorPaddingField: Computes tail size dynamically by matching against known valid MAC sizes (20/24/36/52/68) instead of hardcoding _NTP_AUTH_MD5_TAIL_SIZE
  • NTPAuthenticator.dgst: Changed from XStrFixedLenField with fixed 16-byte length to XStrField to consume all remaining bytes after key_id
  • NTPExtPacketListField.getfield(): Same dynamic tail size detection when splitting extensions from MAC
  • NTPHeader.guess_payload_class(): Added SHA384 (48-byte) digest to the recognized sizes
  • NTPExtensions: _NTPAuthenticatorPaddingField also updated to use dynamic sizing via a new _ntp_auth_tail_size() helper
# Before: SHA1 authenticator parsed incorrectly
# padding='\x00\x00\x00\x0c', key_id=3523582088, dgst=<truncated 16 bytes>

# After: correctly parsed
# padding=None, key_id=12, dgst=<full 20-byte SHA1 digest>

Added tests for SHA1 (24-byte) and SHA256 (36-byte) NTP authenticator dissection and round-trip build/parse.

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✅ Project coverage is 80.10%. Comparing base (ded1d73) to head (cdc5758).

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Check if oldest issues are still present in current master Fix NTP Authenticator parsing for non-MD5 digests (SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) Feb 14, 2026
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