Re: [PLUG] Hey PLUG organizers...want a tech talk on NTPsec?

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

If you're fine with it I'm fine. I'd be less fine with rescheduling
Mark in December.

We'll also need to contact Charlie and John before we make it
official.

Walt

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 09:01:22AM -0400, Will wrote:
> That sounds like a wonderful talk.
> 
> Walt or Paul, is there a possibility we can push next months Desktop
> environment talk out a month? Do we have a topic for North next month?
> 
> -Will
> 
> On Oct 16, 2017 00:20, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Will <staticphantom@gmail.com>:
> > > Plug Central will probably get the largest audience. We will discuss it
> > at
> > > a future event and on IRC. Do you have any time line when you like to
> > give
> > > the talk in terms of how immidiately you would like to do so?
> >
> > Since we just shipped the first production release, sometime in the next
> > couple of weeks would be timely. But I have no specific date in mind.
> >
> > Highlights for the talk:
> >
> > * Better security through attack-surface reduction - or, yes, we removed
> >   76% of the existing NTP code and here's why.
> >
> > * Software engineering as combat archeology - or,  yes, we removed
> >   76% of the existing NTP code and here's *how*.
> >
> > * The standards people won - sticking hard to a C99/POSIX baseline and
> >   how remarkably little trouble that caused us - or, big-iron fossils
> >   considered superfluous.
> >
> > * Better living through rigorous static code checking.
> >
> > * A candidate for silliest bug ever - or, how to improve time-stepping
> >   accuracy x10 by noticing there are too many structure copies.
> >
> > * Pythonize everything you can - and if it only has to run at human speed
> >   rather than machine-to-machine, you can.
> >
> > * The real (and really stupid) reason legacy NTP versions couldn't run
> >   standalone with local clocks and no remote check servers.  And how
> >   we fixed that.
> >
> > * After you've chiseled away a ton of autoconf crap, what next?
> >
> > * Brooksian surgical teams still rock pretty hard.
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> >
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