Network Time Protocol Best Current Practices
draft-ietf-ntp-bcp-04

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft that was ultimately published as RFC 8633.
Authors Denis Reilly , Harlan Stenn , Dieter Sibold
Last updated 2017-05-22 (Latest revision 2017-04-13)
Replaces draft-reilly-ntp-bcp
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draft-ietf-ntp-bcp-04 
lt;http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0078>.

   [CVE-2016-1548]
              Gardner, J. and M. Lichvar, "Xleave Pivot: NTP Basic Mode
              to Interleaved", 2016,
              <http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/04/
              vulnerability-spotlight-further-ntpd_27.html>.

   [MILLS2006]
              Mills, D., "Computer network time synchronization: the
              Network Time Protocol", CRC Press , 2006.

   [NDSS16]   Malhotra, A., Cohen, I., Brakke, E., and S. Goldberg,
              "Attacking the Network Time Protocol", NDSS'16, San Diego,
              CA. , 2016, <https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1020.pdf>.

   [NTS]      Sibold, D., Roettger, S., and K. Teichel, "Network Time
              Security", draft-ietf-ntp-network-time-security-15 (work
              in progress), September 2016.

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   [NTSFORNTP]
              Sibold, D., Roettger, S., and K. Teichel, "Using the
              Network Time Security Specification to Secure the Network
              Time Protocol", draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp-06 (work
              in progress), September 2016.

12.3.  URIs

   [1] http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html

   [2] http://bk.ntp.org/

   [3] https://github.com/ntp-project/ntp

   [4] http://www.bcp38.info

   [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time#Mean_solar_time

   [8] https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Publications/Bulletins/
       bulletins.html

   [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time#Mean_solar_time

   [10] https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list

   [11] http://bk1.ntp.org/ntp-stable/README.leapsmear?PAGE=anno

   [13] https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/ntpwg/2011-August/001714.html

   [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse

Authors' Addresses

   Denis Reilly (editor)
   Spectracom
   1565 Jefferson Road, Suite 460
   Rochester, NY  14623
   US

   Email: denis.reilly@spectracom.orolia.com

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   Harlan Stenn
   Network Time Foundation
   P.O. Box 918
   Talent, OR  97540
   US

   Email: stenn@nwtime.org

   Dieter Sibold
   Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
   Bundesallee 100
   Braunschweig  D-38116
   Germany

   Phone: +49-(0)531-592-8420
   Fax:   +49-531-592-698420
   Email: dieter.sibold@ptb.de

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