As 2020 winds down we reflect on an eventful third quarter at Network Time Foundation. In early September, wildfires destroyed a large percentage of the town of Talent, Oregon, where NTF is headquartered. We are extremely thankful there were no NTF injuries or property damage and operations continued as usual. But it did make the… Read More
Q2 2020 – NTF Accomplishments
Q2 2020 will always be remembered as an exceptionally challenging time. Nevertheless, Network Time Foundation continued our important mission of providing unparalleled time synchronization technology and still made substantial progress in nearly every area of our operations. Accomplishments we are most proud of include: June Public Release of ntp-4.2.8p15 See: https://www.nwtime.org/p15-has-spread-its-wings-and-embarked-in-flight/ New Project Volunteers including:… Read More
P15 Has Spread Its Wings And Embarked In Flight!
The NTP Project at Network Time Foundation publicly released ntp-4.2.8p15 on Tuesday, 23 June 2020. This release fixes one security issue in ntpd and provides 13 bugfixes: MEDIUM: Sec 3661: Memory leak with CMAC keys Systems that use a CMAC algorithm in ntp.keys will not release a bit of memory on each packet that uses… Read More
NTF First Quarter 2020!
Network Time Foundation made great progress during the first quarter of 2020. The following list of accomplishments and events outline tremendous efforts by our growing team of consultants and volunteers. In addition to attendance at important industry events, Achievements over the past three months include: Network Time Protocol 4.2.8p14 was released – “P14 Is Go”:… Read More
Team Cymru Joins Growing Number of Network Time Foundation Members
Network Time Foundation (NTF) today announced that Team Cymru, cyber threat intelligence pioneer and provider of threat hunting and incident response solutions, has joined the foundation as members of the NTP (Network Time Protocol) Consortium, Time Source Consortium, and the General TimeStamp API Consortium. Read more: https://www.prweb.com/releases/team_cymru_joins_growing_number_of_network_time_foundation_members/prweb16986566.htm
P14 IS GO!
NTP-4.2.8p14 Release and Security Vulnerability Announcement The NTP Project at Network Time Foundation publicly released ntp-4.2.8p14 on Tuesday, 03 March 2020. This release fixes three security issues in ntpd: NONE: Sec 3610: process_control() should bail earlier on short packets. Reported by Philippe Antoine (Catena cyber with oss-fuzz). MEDIUM: Sec 3596: Unauthenticated ntpd may be susceptible to IPv4 spoof attack from… Read More
Network Time Foundation 2019 Accomplishments!
2019 was a big year for the Network Time Foundation. New software releases, attendance at global events and growth in memberships were among our many accomplishments. Following is a list of achievements by quarter that we are particularly proud of: Q1 Release of NTP 4.2.8 p13 Completion of IDT Driver Project (a Renesas Company) 4… Read More
Stratum Servers & The Challenges Of Geography
Fascinating article on implementing stratum servers in lesser-developed areas of the world: https://publicntp.org/blog/posts/What-Goes-Into-Deployment.html
An Appropriate Time For A Reminder
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NTP Packet Capture
Great blog post on capturing and wire-sharking the Network Time Protocol: https://blog.webernetz.net/packet-capture-network-time-protocol-ntp/