Company
Date Published
June 21, 2019
Author
Aanchal Malhotra
Word count
2303
Language
English
Hacker News points
43

Summary

Cloudflare has launched a free time service called "time.cloudflare.com" that supports both NTP (Network Time Protocol) and the emerging Network Time Security (NTS) protocol for securing NTP. The announcement is part of Crypto Week 2019, with the aim to make secure versions of insecure Internet protocols available for free. This service will enable anyone to get time securely from Cloudflare's datacenters in 180 cities around the world.