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CTO’s Blog: Time­keep­ing described in two sentences…

So here goes… time is the basis of most all trust processes in one form or another so it above all other things must be prov­able. “Imag­ine your trust-​​​​anchor being tied to a per­ma­nently expir­ing CRL which indexes every sec­ond. ‘Poof’ — you now under­stand what is so complex…about prov­able time-​​​​keeping.” No seri­ously, that’s it. The […]

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CTO’s Blog: New Cus­tomer Pro­vi­sion­ing Form added

Cus­tomer Pro­vi­sion­ing Cer­tichron has updated the basic Cus­tomer Pro­vi­sion­ing Form with this new release. Client’s pur­chas­ing or eval­u­at­ing SecureNTP will need to fill this form out for each site or sys­tem supported/​​registered to use the SecureNTP ser­vice. Sub­mit By Email Please down­load, fill out and email this form to SUPPORT@​CERTICHRON.​COM to reg­is­ter that sys­tem with […]

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CTO’s Blog: Certichron’s ser­vices per­fect for Casino Operations!

Cer­tichron pro­vides com­mer­cial third-​​​​party time ver­i­fi­ca­tion ser­vices cal­i­brated by and to the US National Time Stan­dard by NIST. These are much more than a sim­ple GPS or NTP based time ser­vice most peo­ple are bet­ting the farm on now, they are a com­plete exter­nal time ser­vice which either bolts-​​​​on to exist­ing sys­tems or is inte­grated from design […]

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CTO’s Blog: NGC says Gam­ing sys­tems need pre­ci­sion tim­ing resources

In today’s gam­bling ter­mi­nals and area con­trollers the time man­age­ment ser­vices need spe­cial atten­tion. Linux and other sys­tems In today’s gambl[ing ter­mi­nals and kiosks which run NTP natively are more eas­ily con­fig­ured but many of them only run SNTP mean­ing that they are not capa­ble of rea­son­able strength authen­ti­ca­tion in their time-​​setting process and as such the evi­dence value of the time set­ting event is questionable.