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299 points gastonmorixe | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mhovd ◴[12 Nov 25 10:53 UTC] No.45898645[source]▶
I am surprised that NTP project is not funded, fully or partially, by larger organizations or governments, given the criticality of the project.
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nickelpro ◴[12 Nov 25 12:19 UTC] No.45899269[source]▶
The reference implementation, while historically important, has largely been displaced by more secure/performant implementations (ntpsec, chrony), or by in-house implementations (Amazon, Google).

Notably NTPd doesn't support leap-smear, which means those who absolutely must have monotonic time can't use it at all.

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tptacek ◴[12 Nov 25 13:36 UTC] No.45899969[source]▶
Who's running ntpsec?
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exasperaited ◴[12 Nov 25 13:52 UTC] No.45900183[source]▶
At least in part, someone you really don't want to be running a fork of an important project: ESR.
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1. tptacek ◴[12 Nov 25 13:59 UTC] No.45900259[source]▶
Oh, no, I mean, I know who's actually behind the project, I'm just wondering if there are any major deployments of it.