albertson.ch...@gmail.com said:
> But I use a set of five different servers all controlled by different
> organizations and they are geographically distributed. Also some of these
> are randomly elected "pool" servers. So even I don't know who I will ask
> for time. How could anyone corrupt a
On 10/05/2016 01:17 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
All that said, there is money to be made by spoofing time. If I can fool
a stock broker into accepting trades minutes late I could be rich.
Minutes? I thought the proper unit for that is nanoseconds :).
-Ruslan
The current system is very secure. The paper is correct in the most users
don't bother with authentication or encryption. I don't.But let's say
some one tried to spoof me into thinking it is three seconds later then it
really is by some how setting up an NTP server that gives me incorrect
tim
I just learned about this from a public post:
https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime/
Not precise enough for us nuts, but intended to be secure.
(I wonder how it handles leap seconds? Too soon? :-) Actually, it
smears.)
-christopher.
de AI6KG
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