Engineering at Meta11 min read
NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta
Meta’s public time service now speaks NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at nts.meta.com. Packets are authenticated, so a device can verify the time came from us and was not modified on the way. Our NTS servers hold no per-client state. Cookie keys are derived, not stored and not replicated.
By Oleg ObleukhovMeta Engineering

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Originally published by Meta Engineering on Oct 6, 2026.
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