Hi, [email protected] wrote (03 Jan 2011 16:56:19 GMT) : > Without understanding details of the tor design, did you mention > that tor knows the "real" time? > So why dont you let tor set the right time.
This is exactly what Liberte Linux does, and what we (T(A)ILS developers) are considering to do. We are asking here about possible security / anonymity issues that could be caused by doing this: Tor indeed distributes an approximation of the current time to the Tor users, but this is rather a side effect than an advertised feature, and this is thus probably not meant to be relied on. That's why we are asking the Tor designers / experts / developers if it sounds reasonable to rely on this distributed time to set the system clock within bounds that will allow the Tor client (Tor proxy, in Tor design's words) to work. Bye, -- intrigeri <[email protected]> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | The impossible just takes a bit longer. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
