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It’s just NTP, so what is the big deal??
April 27, 2016 Leave a Comment
NTP is the grand old lady of time synchronisation protocols. Designed by David L. Mills in 1985, it has been a reliable vehicle to provide clients in a network with accurate time down to a few milliseconds. In a nutshell NTP uses a tree-like hierarchical system of time sources, with one or more reference time sources (i.e. an atomic clock) on … [Read More...]
“goto fail”: Apple’s SSL Bug and an unanswered Question
March 21, 2014 Leave a Comment
In February 2014 a bug in Apple’s SSL implementation was patched. It affected Apple mobile products that run iOS 6 and iOS 7 as well as desktop products that run OS X 10.9 (Maverick). iOS 6 was launched in September 2012, so this problem was out in the wild for quite a while. The flaw compromised SSL-based HTTPS connections that use … [Read More...]
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