[tor-relays] Question about authority clock skew

[torjoy]

Thank you for the clarifications, Roger! So the "how right you are" is not too important for all the TOR network?

Luiz


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Em Segunda-feira, 13 de Abril de 2020 às 20:34, Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org> escreveu:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 01:41:41PM +0000, torjoy wrote:
>
> > I was browsing the "Consensus health" page and something let me curious... What is the importance of the clock skew in the authorities with the resolution of microseconds?
>
> Sebastian's answer is exactly right.
>
> I've just opened
> https://bugs.torproject.org/33896
> because you're right, there's no way the level of precision that
> consensus-health reports is at all accurate.
>
> > So considering the microssencond accuracy
>
> Using the definitions that "precision" is how many digits you're
> providing, and "accuracy" is how right you are, I'd say that we're giving
> you microsecond precision but not microsecond accuracy. :)
>
> Thanks,
> --Roger
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