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299 points gastonmorixe | 6 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
1. imglorp ◴[12 Nov 25 12:02 UTC] No.45899116[source]▶
The project has been hungry for years.

There was a fork to clean up and secure the implementation: https://ntpsec.org and ideally they would combine forces.

Summarized here: https://lwn.net/Articles/713901

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2. tptacek ◴[12 Nov 25 13:36 UTC] No.45899958[source]▶
Yeah the ntpsec story, not great. I don't believe they're taken especially seriously. There are people close to Harlan Stenn who believe the project is essentially fraudulent.
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3. BigTTYGothGF ◴[12 Nov 25 13:47 UTC] No.45900118[source]▶
> the project is essentially fraudulent

Even if it's not, ESR is involved so it's not serious.

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4. chocalot ◴[12 Nov 25 14:10 UTC] No.45900406[source]▶
An ntpd-rs contributor elsewhere in the thread suggests ntpsec is used by many distributions, and suggests donating to ntpsec (amongst some other organisations).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900184

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5. akerl_ ◴[12 Nov 25 15:25 UTC] No.45901332{3}[source]▶
Every distribution I've seen is using chrony or systemd-timesyncd. Is there a distribution that's actually using ntpsec?
6. imglorp ◴[12 Nov 25 19:14 UTC] No.45904722{3}[source]▶
So, I understand first hand ESR might be a little, uh, eccentric, when dealing with humans.

But it seems that his nerding, taken by itself, is pretty solid. Is that not the case?