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by mlichvar 1034 days ago
A better solution to secure bootstrapping of time would be NTP+NTS (RFC 8915) using self-signed certificates with unlimited time validity, which can be preloaded with the OS and updated via normal OS updates if the server key is compromised. They would probably need to run their own servers. There are some public NTS servers (e.g. Cloudflare and Netnod), but I have not seen any using long-term certificates specifically for this use case.