1 MD5 }Vp72N9amdf-Qa6`FQ^Y
the part that looks like this: }Vp72N9amdf-Qa6`FQ^Y should be the same as the key that your NTP server is using to authenticate the other clients on your network. I generated the key with the ntp-keygen command.
Okay, so does the ntp-keygen command just spit out random ASCII text, or do you supply a plaintext word, and it spits out ASCII text representing the MD5 hash of the plaintext?
Wait. I see another difference; I’ve been placing just “M” in the keys file for the encryption algorithm type. Should it be “MD5” for RHEL 6.1?