Network Time Security (NTS)

Network Time Security (NTS) provides cryptographic security for network time synchronization and supports the client/server mode of NTP. NTS uses the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol and Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) to obtain network time in an authenticated manner. NTS provides strong cryptographic protection against wide range of security attacks such as packet manipulation, spoofing, DDOS amplification attacks, and replay attacks. Through the use of cookies server does not need to locally store client specific data such as keys and AEAD algorithm.