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
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Congress Passes The National Timing Security and Resilience Act of 2018
The following is from a recent Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation update: “This month saw a significant milestone for us with Congress’ passage of the National Timing Security and Resilience Act of 2018 as a part of the regular US Coast Guard authorization bill. The act requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish a difficult… Read More
Secure Time Seeding – improving time keeping in Windows
Excellent time to revisit an informative article written by Sarath Madakasira @Microsoft covering time synchronization solutions on Windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/w32time/2016/09/28/secure-time-seeding-improving-time-keeping-in-windows/
NTF Success Stories – LinuxPTP Under the Sea
For 60 years, the Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) has been providing R&D in support of NATO. The CMRE has advanced oceanographic science and instrumentation, moored scientific platforms, underwater acoustics and communication, conventional and advanced sonar systems, and cetacean risk mitigation policy. It is currently a leading center for advances in unmanned autonomous… Read More
Network Time Foundation Publishes NTP 4.2.8p12
This release improves on one security issue in ntpd: LOW/MEDIUM: Sec 3012 / CVE-2016-1549 / CVE-2018-7170 /: Sybil vulnerability: ephemeral association attack While fixed in ntp-4.2.8p7 and with significant additional protections for this issue in 4.2.8p11, ntp-4.2.8p12 includes a fix for an edge case in the new noepeer support. Originally reported by Matt Van Gundy… Read More
Network Time Foundation Publishes NTP 4.2.8p11
February 2018 ntp-4.2.8p11 NTP Release and Security Vulnerability Announcement The NTP Project at Network Time Foundation publicly released ntp-4.2.8p11 on Tuesday, 27 February 2018. This release addresses five low and medium security issues in ntpd: LOW/MEDIUM: Sec 3012 / CVE-2016-1549 / VU#961909: Sybil vulnerability: ephemeral association attack While fixed in ntp-4.2.8p7, there are significant additional… Read More
Network Time Foundation’s 2017 Accomplishments
NTF’s 2017 Accomplishments First, we want to thank all our generous members and donors. As a nonprofit organization, it is all of you who help Network Time Foundation produce and maintain the most reliable, secure and trusted open source network time software, which is so vital to the infrastructure of our modern world. … Read More
Past, Present, and Future of NTP
The Past, Present, and Future of NTP Operations at AusNOG 2017 Paul Gear, an NTF individual member and volunteer, presented a talk at AusNOG on September 7th in Melbourne, Australia entitled The Past, Present, and Future of NTP Operations. We were ecstatic to have Paul take the time from his day job at Canonical Ltd.… Read More
Donation Matching Lets You Make Double the Difference!
Folks often feel that their donations aren’t enough to make a real difference. Nowadays, however, it is becoming more common for employers to offer donation matching to those employees who contribute to non-profit organizations. While the majority of donation matching programs match contributions dollar for dollar, some will even match twice or three times an… Read More
Time Synchronization You Can Trust
Time is all around us. At any point, you likely have at least one clock within viewing distance. Is anyone caught without their cell phone these days? As I’m writing this, I have the time in the lower right corner of my laptop screen, the display of my smartwatch, my cell phone and an analog… Read More