A rift in the NTP world
<p><pre><code>    Several years ago, the project&#x27;s inadequate funding became known in the media
    and Stenn received partial funding from the Linux Foundation&#x27;s Core
    Infrastructure Initiative, which was started after the discovery of how the
    minimal resources of the OpenSSL project left systems vulnerable to the
    Heartbleed vulnerability.

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No no no no. Yes more funding and resources are good for these things but Heartbleed did not come about because of that. It came about to due broken development practices and the developers focusing on adding more features rather than working through the issues people had reported in their bug tracker.<p>The work done in NTPsec echos this in what seems to be a repeat of OpenSSL&#x2F; LibreSSL with NTP&#x2F; NTPsec.<p>Yes forking is the &quot;easy way out&quot; in these circumstances and it&#x27;s a shame to see efforts split in such projects but in reality it&#x27;s often what&#x27;s needed to get things moving in the right direction.