NTS is now an RFC
Oct 1, 2020Watson Ladd
Summary
This post announces that Network Time Security (NTS) for NTP has become an official RFC (RFC 8915). It highlights Cloudflare's role in developing, promoting, and implementing NTS, including releasing source code and providing a public time service that supports NTS. The post emphasizes the security implications of accurate time synchronization and the vulnerabilities addressed by NTS, urging wider adoption by operating systems and administrators.
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