OpenNTPProject.org

Wed Jan 15 23:31:06 UTC 2014

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 09:18:30AM +0200, Saku Ytti wrote:

> DNS, NTP, SNMP, chargen et.al. could trivially change to QUIC/MinimaLT
> or compared, getting same 0 RTT penalty as UDP without reflection
> potential.

I wouldn't say trivial, but QUIC and MinimaLT are hopefully the future.
The near future, I hope!

For now I'd just like to mention that OpenNTPD, from the OpenBSD
project, is immune to the kind of large NTP amplification attacks now
being discussed.  It's certainly a good fit for some
organizations/setups.

http://www.openntpd.org

Nicolai