[tor-dev] Proposal 222: Stop sending client timestamps

[Maxim Kammerer]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org> wrote:
>    Despite this late date, many hosts aren't running NTP and
>    don't have very well synchronized clocks. Even more hosts
>    aren't running a secure NTP; it's probably easy to
>    desynchronize target hosts.

Not strongly related to the proposal, but authenticated (autokey) NTP
is not really secure.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-network-time-security
http://www.innovationslab.net/~brian/NTP/autokey-analysis.pdf

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Maxim Kammerer
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