On 09/27/2014 05:55 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote:
But to your point, local system time doesn't/shouldn't impact correlation
attacks at all. Every network hop between the user and destination has a set
system time that is far better to determine sequence. Correlation attacks are
nice on paper,
Hi,
you might be interested in this:
https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/509159304323416064
Why could it be relevant?
Tor Browser (and other applications?) leak the system clock in default
settings [1]. At the same time, the system clock leaks to ISP level
observers through TCP sequence numbers.
Mostly off-topic, but: Tor will also fail to start if it thinks that the system
time/date are dramatically wrong. I've had to set the system date before for
tor to be able to create a circuit at all (though it was wrong by days, not
minutes). So, do people fetch network time before
So, do people fetch network time before bootstrapping?
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/Time_syncing/
cheers!
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