On Sunday 20 July 2003 08:06 am, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:53:08AM -0400, Nick Tarleton wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 July 2003 01:23 am, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:46:31PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck spake thusly:
> > > > 1. Warn users to make sure their date/time is set correctly.
> > >
> > > Since nodes are going to be talking to each other anyway is there any
> > > way to distribute a time sync within freenet itself similar to ntp?
> > > Fred can't reset the system time but perhaps it could maintain its own
> > > "freenet" time which ideally would be the same as GMT. This could solve
> > > the incorrect system clock issue.
> >
> > How to get everyone to agree with no malicious screwing? SSK distributed?
> > From whom?
>
> How exactly would an SSK certify the current time?
How else can the time sync be distributed accurately, not be able to be
screwed up by malicious reporting, and be more or less the same across all of
Freenet?
However, a prominent 'SET CLOCK CORRECTLY!' should be enough.. Maybe the local
time could be checked against NTP and a 'Warning: your clock is this far off'
displayed?
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