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Tuesday, 2024-11-02


OpenNTPD released

This just hit my inbox:

OpenNTPD 3.6 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openntpd.org/ shortly. This is our first formal release.

This is really cool. NTP is the Network Time Protocol, useful for making your computer as accurate as an atomic clock. Essential for logging stuff across the network, detecting net anonomalies, et cetera. But it’s also complex and hard to get right. I’m sure the OpenNTP team have applied their usual mix of code auditing, clear coding, and crypto integration as in OpenBSD and OpenSSH.

The OpenBSD project is fast becoming the OpenTLA project — freeing the world, one protocol at a time.

Update: changed the title to reflect the correct project name: OpenNTPD.

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