Gary E. Miller <g...@rellim.com>: > > - to fuzz the low-order bits of the clock. > > Hmm, can you expand on this a bit? Which clock? How much fuzz? > Does this degrade anything?
Whenever ntpd polls the system clock, it fuzzes the lowest-order digits
of the result. The amount of fuzz to apply is bounded by half the measured
interval between system clock ticks.
That shouldn't degrade anything. I presume it's a measure to foil timing
attacks of some sort. Daniel might be able to say more.
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