Show HN: I spent too much time making an NTS client fail correctly

Category: library

Tags: nts, rust, network-time

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

rkik-nts is a Rust library implementing RFC 8915's Network Time Security (NTS) for authenticated time synchronization. It handles the complexity of NTS key exchange and secure NTP queries with a focus on robust failure handling and explicit error propagation. The project is interesting for its thorough treatment of edge cases and security diagnostics features like TLS certificate inspection.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, infrastructure engineers

Repository: https://github.com/aguacero7/rkik-nts · Rust · GPL-2.0 · 7 stars

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