Hi, [email protected] wrote (06 Jun 2012 01:15:55 GMT) : > Why doesn't Tails use tlsdate, made by Jacob Appelbaum? [1] [2]
> Wouldn't it be a good replacement for htp? Because it's not clear at all where, and how it could fit into, replace or improve the current time sync' system we already have: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/Time_syncing/ I had difficulties communicating on this topic with Jacob on IRC, so I told him I will have a serious look once he makes this point clear. tlsdate could be a good replacement for HTP once it has the features we need (e.g. our three-pools design) -- OTOH, another options could be to keep our existing htpdate wrapper (that implements the clever bits), and merely replace wget + header parsing in there with tlsdate. In this context, tlsdate communication would go through Tor. However, it *seems* to me Jacob was suggesting us to run tlsdate in the clear, that is without going through Tor; hence the question I raised about the network fingerprint of this tool, unanswered as of today (see <[email protected]> on tor-talk). I'm worried running tlsdate in the clear would get us back to the "Tails leaves a clear bootstrap network fingerprint" old days we have managed to escape with our current time sync' system. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
