Protecting Network Time Security Messages with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Dieter Sibold, Russ Housley, Stephen Roettger, Kristof Teichel · 2016
This document describes a convention for using the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) to protect the messages in the Network Time Security (NTS) protocol. NTS provides authentication of time servers as well as integrity protection of time synchronization messages using Network Time Protocol (NTP) or Precision Time Protocol (PTP).