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How do you know what time it is? (Netnod)

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This post examines some of the fundamentals of providing accurate time. These include looking at what makes a clock, how to ensure accuracy down to the level of nanoseconds and what Netnod is doing to ensure accurate time throughout Sweden.

Building a more accurate time service at Facebook scale

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Almost all of the billions of devices connected to the internet have onboard clocks, which need to be accurate to properly perform their functions. 

Network Time Security: new NTP authentication mechanism

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The use of authentication mechanisms in Network Time Protocol (NTP) is important to prevent the manipulation of time information by an attacker.

Network Time Security: new NTP authentication mechanism

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The use of authentication mechanisms in Network Time Protocol (NTP) is important to prevent the manipulation of time information by an attacker.

Announcing cfnts: Cloudflare’s implementation of NTS in Rust

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Several months ago Cloudflare announced that it wasproviding a new public time service. Part of what it wasproviding was the first major deployment of the new NTS protocol, with a newly written implementation of NTS in Rust.