Re-engineering internet timekeeping for scalability, accuracy and trust

该项目旨在定义和解决支撑安全和可扩展的网络守时系统的问题，并在现实条件下通过互联网实现和测试一个原型。所有计算机都集成了软件时钟，这对软件应用程序至关重要。网络是同步这些时钟的一种廉价而方便的方法，但互联网目前依赖于一种不可靠和不安全的方法。预期的结果将是可信、准确和可靠的软件时钟，支持云计算、计费系统和安全通信等应用，这可能成为互联网和物联网的计时系统。

This project aims to define and solve problems underpinning a secure and extensible system for network timekeeping, and implement and test a prototype under realistic conditions over the Internet. All computers incorporate a software clock, essential to software applications. A network is an inexpensive and convenient way to synchronise these clocks, but the Internet currently depends on an unreliable and insecure approach. The expected outcome will be trusted, accurate and reliable software clocks that support applications like cloud computing, billing systems and secure communications, which could become the timekeeping system for the Internet and the Internet of Things.