Worth Reading: Securing NTP and the Origins of Time

Geoff Huston published an article supposedly describing the challenge of securing NTP, but as is usually the case, he couldn’t skip the prior art going all the way back (almost) to the formation of Earth.

Before coming to the how do we secure NTP section, you’ll learn everything about the wobbly Earth rotation, the changes in the Earth’s angular speed, the impact of tides, the smearing of leap seconds, the differences between UT1 and UTC, why we use quasars to measure time, and everything there is to know about NTP. Have fun!

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