New Standard to Ensure Secure Time on the Internet

New Standard to Ensure Secure Time on the Internet

By Onlykhabar News Media Sat 10 October, 2020 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤1097 Viewerstechnology

NTP enables the synchronization of time on computers connected by a network. 

 Secure and accurate time is also crucial for many Internet security technologies including basic website security.  Time is very important for many vital everyday functions, such as financial transactions and the correct operation of electrical power systems and transportation systems. As everything becomes more distributed and more online, synchronized time in computers becomes even more important.  NTP has lagged behind in development and deployment. Network Time Security NTS was developed to fill this gap.

NTS adds cryptographic security for the client-server mode of NTP. So, what does this mean? It means that NTP can now confirm the identity of the network clocks that are exchanging time information and protect the transmission of that time information across the network. The NTP client then uses these tokens in NTP extension fields for authentication and integrity checking of the NTP protocol messages that exchange time information. NTS is basically two loosely coupled sub-protocols that together add security to NTP. 

This includes those who helped write the document itself, those who developed the early open source implementations and provided feedback to the NTP.  Many organizations and individuals deserve credit for helping to get this new standard to publication.  Working Group, and those who participated in early hackathons and interoperability testing.  While it is not possible to recognize everyone involved, I do think it is important to acknowledge the authors of the RFC.  These authors, in conjunction with the NTP working group, put in a great deal of time and effort over many years to get to this milestone. 

 Congratulations to everyone involved in this effort! The Internet Society believes that the publication of RFC 8915 will be a significant step forward in addressing the significant gap in NTP security. Additionally, I would like to recognize the early implementors and the vital feedback that they provided. Martin Langer  deserves special mention as the person.  The viability of the NTS approach and bringing other developers to the table.  You can also find out more about the work that some of the organizations involved in getting the NTS protocol finalized are doing on Time Security:

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By Onlykhabar News Media Sat 10 October, 2020 🎤1097 Viewerstechnology
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New Standard to Ensure Secure Time on the Internet

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