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
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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
Accomplishments Q1 & Q2 ’17 — Community Update
First, thank you to all our generous members and donors. Because of your continued support Network Time Foundation was able to accomplish some great things in the first half of 2017. As a nonprofit organization, it is all of you who help NTF produce and maintain the most reliable, secure and trusted open-source network time… Read More
Harlan Stenn Interviewed on CyberMatters Radio
On June 4th, Mark Graff interviewed Harlan Stenn on CyberMatters Radio as part of the “Hidden Heroes” series they are producing. You may already know about NTP and network time. This interview is still worth a listen! It gives a great overview of NTP, network time in general and the impact it has on our… Read More
Network Time Foundation Publishes NTP 4.2.8-p10
Network Time Foundation publishes NTP 4.2.8p10, with security, bug and information fixes, and enhancements As part of the Mozilla Foundation’s Secure Open Source (SOS) program they conducted a security audit of the NTP codebase. This release addresses the issues found along with a zero origin security bug. NTF’s Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project released ntp-428p10… Read More
Time is running out for NTP
InfoWorld 28 Nov, 2016 by Fahmida Y. Rashid Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol, but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives. (NTP and other network time projects are all managed through Network Time Foundation (NTF), a 501c3 non-profit). There are two types of open source projects: those with… Read More
Network Time Foundation Publishes NTP 4.2.8p9
Network Time Foundation publishes NTP 4.2.8p9, with security, bug fixes, and enhancements NTF’s Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project released ntp-4.2.8p9 on 21 November 2016, its first update since ntp-4.2.8p8 was released in June. The latest version addresses the following: 1 HIGH severity vulnerability that only affects Windows 2 MEDIUM severity vulnerabilities 2 MEDIUM/LOW severity vulnerabilities… Read More
Solar Flares Can Affect Satellite Time
From QRZNOW.com Dr. Tamitha Skov says: Direct Hit! NASA prediction shows the Earth-directed solar storm will hit us on November 9, but NOAA says it will hit on November 8. Either way expect amateur radio and GPS/GNSS issues starting around November 7. Aurora could be visible to mid-latitudes, with shows down to The Netherlands and… Read More
