[Feature request] Secure time via NTS

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Can you fix plain NTP to work via Chrony via NTS (Networ Time over TLS)?

It is really tiny and will via multiple issues

You can use Cloudflare for this
https://www.cloudflare.com/time/

Link - how to set up secure time server.

It is crucial since most of your routers are travel and designed to connect to shady networks and shield devices.

If time server not secure, attacker can do for example certificate attacks.

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@bruce would you like to take a look?

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Hi

Could you please let us know the model and firmware version that you have a chrony-nts configuration issue?

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It is not issue report. It is feature request.

Now your firmware uses plain (unencrypted) NTP.

I think you should replace it with encrypted one (NTS).

GL-MT3000 Beryl AX, 4.8.1

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Hi

Thank you for your suggestion.
We will submit it to the product team for consideration in our future firmware updates.