Google Summer of Code 2015 – NTF’s NTP projects are heading to the finish line We are excited to be approaching the last phase of Network Time Foundation’s sponsorship in GSoC 2015! There was great participation from the Mentors and Students both, and their work has already been put to use in improving Network Time… Read More
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Paul Mace & Rich Garling join NTF
Network Time Foundation (NTF) is pleased to announce that Paul Mace has been added to our Board of Directors, and Rich Garling joins our staff as Program Manager. Paul Mace is a former Marine Corps Navigator, pilot and software pioneer. His career in hi-tech extends from pioneering the field of Data Recovery, through launching television… Read More
Network Time Security – NTS replacing Autokey
Network Time Foundation is Improving its NTP Project Security with NTS – Network Time Security Project First, some history about Network Time Protocol (NTP) and authentication. NTP saw its original cryptographic authentication code back around 1992, in the ntp3 distribution, when it used MD5 hashes to authenticate remote configuration requests. This was a “private key”… Read More
NTF’s NTP Project gets support from Linux Foundation
NTF’s Program Manager, Rich Garling, extends his appreciation to the Linux Foundation/CII for its renewed support for a portion of Harlan Stenn’s vitally important development efforts on Network Time Foundation’s NTP Project. Please read Charles Babcock’s Information Week article Linux Foundation funds NTP’s Father Time for additional information on this essential project. NTF also wants… Read More
Rob Seaman joins NTF as a Senior Advisor
Network Time Foundation is very pleased to announce that Rob Seaman has joined the staff as a Senior Temporal Advisor. Rob Seaman chairs the Working Group on Time Domain Astronomy of the International Astronomical Union, and is a member of the IAU WG on Coordinated Universal Time. Rob was an organizer of two international colloquia… Read More
Leap second is no Y2K bug
June 30, 2015 by Solomon Israel, CBC News Most days last for 86,400 seconds, but June 30, 2015, will last for 86,401. Because the Earth doesn’t rotate at a constant speed, scientists have taken to adding the occasional leap second to keep international timekeeping in line with the world’s super-accurate atomic clocks. Why we’re turning our clocks ever-so-slightly back The last… Read More
PTPd 2.3.1 released
After over 18 months of development at various intensity and final weeks of really intensive development and testing, the time has come for PTPd 2.3.1 to see the light of day. Although disappointingly late (leap second announcement has just started), it is definitely worth the upgrade. The changelog is quite a long list, perhaps too… Read More
NTF Releases ntp 4.2.8p3 Including Leap Second Updates
June 29, 2015 – Network Time Foundation has released its next stable release of NTP, 4.2.8p3, which includes a fix for a minor security issue, many bug fixes, and some new features including leap second experimental options. Here are some highlights: –2837 makes it easier to distribute time packets with the right priority settings on… Read More
Master NTP Repositories on github!
Network Time Foundation (NTF) is pleased to announce master NTP repositories on github! Many people have asked for the NTP Sources to be published under git and we’re very happy to be able to offer git access to the master repository of NTF’s Reference Implementation of NTP. Check it out, at https://github.com/ntp-project/ntp . We have… Read More
Leap Second on 30 June 2015
Network Time Foundation exists “to fix and prevent your headaches regarding Network Time”. One such headache that is sure to generate a lot of noise this year is the upcoming leap second to be introduced world-wide as the last second of June 2015. With this blog post and with software updates (see article by Harlan… Read More
