Meta Adds NTS Authenticated Time Service at nts.meta.com
Meta's public time service now supports NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at nts.meta.com. Packets are authenticated so devices can verify time came from Meta and was not modified in transit. Meta says its NTS servers hold no per-client state, with cookie keys derived rather than stored or replicated, and it has open sourced the implementation.
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