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[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

The Network Time
Protocol
(NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, open
specification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities we
take for granted. It also, despite a number of efforts, remains
stubbornly unsecured. Ruben Nijveld presented work at FOSDEM 2026 to
speed adoption of the thus-far largely ignored standard for securing
NTP traffic: IETF’s RFC-8915 that specifies Network Time
Security
(NTS) for NTP.