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Re: System time in anonymity oriented LiveCDs



On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:06:44PM +0100, anonym wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Liberté Linux has a novel solution to this problem[4] -- it sets the
> system time according to the Tor consensus' valid-after/until values,
> which essentially removes Tor's time skew check. We T(A)ILS developers
> are tempted to implement the same solution, but first we'd like to ask
> here if this is safe, or if it opens up for any unexpected type of
> attacks or problems.
> 
> If any one has a completely different solution for the system time issue
> we're very interested in hearing that out as well.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> [1] https://amnesia.boum.org

The latest T(A)ILS is using HTP instead of NTP
https://amnesia.boum.org/contribute/design/HTP/

(I hesitated to post this but it doesnt seem to have come up 
here so far even though people linked to the T(A)ILS site.)
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