[ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...
Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
tglassey at earthlink.net
Fri May 1 03:01:21 UTC 2009
Gretchen Baxter wrote:
> good news for people who like good news.
>
> so when can we expect actual solutions from certichron?
Certichron has been serving secured NTP quietly for two years now. We
offer a new NTP/PPP service which eliminates the issues with the lack of
security the Internet poses.
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
> <tglassey at earthlink.net <mailto:tglassey at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
> Gretchen Baxter wrote:
>
> thanx!
>
> in that case, this is good news for everyone in the timing
> community.
>
>
> We think so - and as CertifiedTime's original founder I am
> overjoyed to turn CertifiedTime's services back online. The intent
> when I built CertifiedTime Inc originally was to build a uniform
> time source which is operated inside of an Audit Practice which
> meets BOTH the RFC3161 requirements (set by ETSI and the EU) for
> running time service enterprises as well as those through US Law
> as well. We at Certichron are doing exactly that.
>
> This, by the way, is why I keep asserting that the following is
> necessary because of the sheer number of implementations using any
> number of OS interfaces including those run-time services added
> here by the ISC.ORG <http://ISC.ORG> NTP effort. The same is
> needed for each commercial release of NTP including all commercial
> providers since the Audit Community has been formally put on
> notice this key set of definitions and goal's don't exist, and
> since they cannot review those test reports they can no longer
> allow the introduction of un-certified code into production systems.
>
> 1) A formal specification of how NTP works with what Kernel
> resources and what the thread overhead of those controls inside
> the Run-Time Image ace. The intent is to create a set of metrics
> which can be used by NTP implementors to tune their releases and
> to set a 'stake in the ground' for implementors of appliance style
> NTP systems.
>
> 2) A formal specification for testing NTP and a method of
> specify partial or core compliance since many of the new controls
> added don't really make sense to keep inside all versions of NTP.
> (Sorry it is what it is - NTP - IMHO - should not be used for
> negotiating policy information - only for moving time around).
>
> 3) A formal characterization and operations guidelines so the
> commercial industry don't get bad advice on the systems and
> processes needed to generate that court-admissible evidence.
>
> Todd Glassey
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
> <tglassey at earthlink.net <mailto:tglassey at earthlink.net>
> <mailto:tglassey at earthlink.net
> <mailto:tglassey at earthlink.net>>> wrote:
>
> So Gretchen - you asked about CTI (CertifiedTime and noticed it
> went out
> of business). CertifiedTime was no different than any of the
> poorly run
> .com companies which burst. But the resurrected Certichron
> is run by
> attorney's and as its founder and principal technologist I
> can assure
> you that the entity is alive and well - so just change the name
>
> If you want to talk more about what happend to CertifiedTime or
> why, we
> should take this offline.
>
>
> Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
> tglassey at certichron.com <mailto:tglassey at certichron.com>
> <mailto:tglassey at certichron.com <mailto:tglassey at certichron.com>>
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