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
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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
March 2019 ntp-4.2.8p13 NTP Release and Security Vulnerability Announcement
The NTP Project at Network Time Foundation publicly released ntp-4.2.8p13 on Thursday, 07 March 2019. This release fixes one security issue in ntpd: MEDIUM: Sec 3565: Crafted null dereference attack from a trusted source with an authenticated mode 6 packet A crafted malicious authenticated mode 6 (ntpq) packet from a permitted network address can trigger… Read More
2018 – A Year Of Growth & Development
2018 was a year of growth and development at the Network Time Foundation. A tremendous amount of work was accomplished and, importantly, the foundations of what will be an incredible 2019 have been put down. Important Technical Achievements over the past twelve months included: Two security releases – 4.2.8p11 and 4.2.8p12 (Details available on the… Read More
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
Q1 – Q2 Accomplishments 2018
Network Time Foundation Q1 – Q2 Accomplishments 2018 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… Read More
NTF’s 2018 Q1 Accomplishments
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. Software Releases & Other Technical Achievements… Read More
PublicNTP Partnership Announcement
PublicNTP Partners with Network Time Foundation Network Time Foundation and PublicNTP, Inc. are proud to announce that PublicNTP has joined Network Time Foundation as an Institutional Member at the Partner level. The two organizations are combining their resources to bolster their shared goal of providing more Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. Specifically, this helps to… 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
NTF Attended ISPCS Symposium
NTF Attended ISPCS 2017 Plugfest and Symposium in Monterey, CA Last week, I joined Harlan Stenn at the 2017 ISPCS Conference (International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control, and Communication) where we attended the Plugfest and heard the latest developments in the PTP community. This was NTF’s fifth time at the event… Read More