[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

The Network TimeProtocol (NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, openspecification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities wetake for granted. It also, despite a number of efforts, remainsstubbornly unsecured. Ruben Nijveld presented work at FOSDEM 2026 tospeed adoption of the thus-far largely ignored standard for securingNTP traffic: IETF's RFC-8915 that specifies Network TimeSecurity (NTS) for NTP.