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Q2 2020 – NTF Accomplishments

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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

Congress Passes The National Timing Security and Resilience Act of 2018

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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

NTF Success Stories – LinuxPTP Under the Sea

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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