Port 5319Roughtime

Roughtime provides signed time responses so clients can detect stale or tampered time information.

transport
tcp · udp

2 transports registered

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
2/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 5,442 · top 18%

Technical Details

what runs on :5319

Roughtime is a request-response time protocol. A client sends a fresh nonce; the server returns a timestamp and uncertainty information signed under a key the client trusts, allowing the client to check authenticity and freshness rather than relying on an unauthenticated time reply. The protocol is not designed to hide the time exchange. UDP is a common transport for Roughtime; TCP is also listed for this service, but transport support and stream framing depend on the implementation. This port is the IANA assignment, not a guarantee that every Roughtime deployment uses it.

Security Information

exposure of :5319

risk score

2/ 10safe

routine exposure. this port is rarely the way in on its own — keep it patched and logged and move on.

security averages 3.0 across 388 ports — this one sits 1.0 below.

in transit

cleartext

credentials and payloads are readable by anyone on path

assignment

official

registered with iana for this service — scanners fingerprint it by number

reachable over

tcp · udp

udp is connectionless — source addresses are trivially spoofed and it is a reflection favourite

security overview

Roughtime responses are authenticated, not encrypted: observers can see the exchange, and a client that trusts the wrong server key can still accept misleading time. Fresh nonces help prevent replay, but exposed servers can still receive unwanted requests or denial-of-service traffic; expose only an implementation you intend to operate and restrict it where practical. A public listener is not, by itself, evidence of a compromise.

the 8 most looked-up other ports in security — 388 ports carry that label.

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • caution100%

2 of 8 encrypted