Meta details how it runs NTS authenticated time in production
kumrayu · hn · 2026-11-06
Meta's engineering blog explains how the company deploys NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) to provide cryptographically authenticated, tamper-resistant time synchronization across its production infrastructure, replacing trust-on-unknown-network NTP for security-sensitive distributed systems.
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