Re: ntpclient names

2017-02-22 Thread Royce Williams
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo Royce! > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:38:04 -0900 > Royce Williams wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Gary E. Miller >> wrote: >> > >> > Yo Achim! >> > >>

Re: ntpclient names

2017-02-22 Thread Royce Williams
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Gary E. Miller wrote: > > Yo Achim! > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:21:01 +0100 > Achim Gratz wrote: > > > Gary E. Miller writes: > > > Mark was thinking of a separate ntp-tools package or option. Many > > > distros has a X package and a matching X-tools package. We

minor CSS suggestion for blog author-byline readability

2017-02-14 Thread Royce Williams
Quoting myself on IRC today: CSS/presentation request for the blog: something to visually separate the byline from the text ... either more whitespace, or a line or two, or a different color, etc. My eyes keep trying to read the first line as: "One of the earliest technical decisions the NTPsec

Re: The end of the beginning is in sight

2017-01-06 Thread Royce Williams
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > The successful scalarization of both 64-bit timestamp types has now > been achieved. Most excellent! From my vantage point in the peanut gallery, it's been a fascinating and inspiring show. [snip] > 7. NTPv5? Maybe a new base protocol, m

Re: fuzzing NTPsec with afl

2016-11-21 Thread Royce Williams
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 02:11:12PM -0900, Royce Williams wrote: >> >> If those minimal changes are turned into a compile-time option, this >> would enable adding fuzzing to the rolling test suite, perhaps using >>

fuzzing NTPsec with afl

2016-11-21 Thread Royce Williams
This can obviously wait until after the current CVE scramble dies down. Below is how Stubman modified ntpd to be afl-friendly. I'm not sure, but I think he modified ntpd to accept UDP "input" from stdin, and created valid initial NTP UDP "packets" as test-case data with which to to "seed" afl. Un