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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:52:13 +1000 (EST)
From:      Ross Wheeler <rossw@albury.net.au>
To:        twig les <twigles@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, Kim Okasawa <kimokasawa@hotmail.com>, <_@r4k.net>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NTP security - (was Any security issues with root's cron job?)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0207061350010.24921-100000@giroc.albury.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020706032916.35363.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com>

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> The way we skirt the issue of having our own secure
> source is to get our border routers to poll a couple
> of servers on the internet and then the servers can
> poll them.  There are a number of possible attacks on
> this, but we're not getting 20 grand for our own
> source anytime soon

> I'm open to ideas.

Whip over to ebay, buy a cheap second-hand GPS and cable, stick it into
one of your servers and presto - instant "stratum 1" time reference for
under a hundred bucks. Under your control (I can't see anyone taking over
or DoSing the whole of the GPS network any time soon, do you?)


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