The problem with ntpd is the sudden performance degradations which can occur when conditions deviate from ‘ideal’. We have detailed these robustness issues of ntpd in prior work, including [17, 18]. Simply put, when path delay variability exceeds some threshold, which is a complex function
Economics of Free Software
Fate has made me the “money guy” for OpenSSL so I’m going to talk about that for a bit. As has been well reported in the news of late, the OpenSSL Software Foundation (OSF) is a legal entity created to
Measuring Clock Synchronization in the Cloud- NTPd versus TimeKeeper
Measured on Amazon EC2. Standard deviation from reference time over 20 hours TimeKeeper: 23 microseconds NTPd: 6000 microseconds (6 milliseconds)
At issue in Apple versus Samsung patent fight
A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives from
Managed services (and cloud) for financial industry
The nature of data security is constantly changing for the financial industry. With the ever-growing need for tighter IT infrastructure security and the increasing prevalence of BYOD-friendly workplaces, financial institutions are turning to managed services to help handle these changes. In fact,
Cassandra Cluster Synchronization
Cassandra is a highly-distributable NoSQL database with tunable consistency. What makes it highly distributable makes it also, in part, vulnerable: the whole deployment must run on synchronized clocks. It’s quite surprising that, given how crucial this is, it is not covered
NTPd DOS attacks
Miscreants who earlier this week took down servers for League of Legends, EA.com, and other online game services used a never-before-seen technique that vastly amplified the amount of junk traffic directed at denial-of-service targets. Rather than directly flooding the targeted services with
Data tiedowns with reliable time stamping
Management teams are growing more reliant on the ability to immediately access and quickly sort through massive amounts of data to find the information they need – Data Governance for Financial Institution A “data tiedown” is a reliable and cross-checked timestamp