How to set time.

[Kyle Williams]

Your Tor client will tell you that you have a time set that is too far off
what it should be.  It will report this in minutes.Read that line and adjust
your time by X minutes.


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Niels Elgaard Larsen <elgaard at agol.dk>wrote:

> How do you set the system time anonymiously?
>
> I am interested because we make the Polippix live CD. But there could be
> other circumstances, in which you just do not know the time.
>
> When booting from a live-cd, the time is often wrong, because the hardware
> clock is off or because the timezone for the hardware clock is unknown
> (ufortunately not everyone use UTC).
>
> TOR does not work until the time is set correctly. (after TOR is running
> NTP will not work as it uses UDP, but it would be possible to use some TCP
> service)
>
> I would prefer to not start each session with making a cleartext time sync,
> as it opens for denial of service attacks and makes it easier to spot
> TOR-users.
>
> How about getting the time from TOR nodes, maybe just to figure out the
> timezone (i,e., change the clock a multiple number of hours)?
>
>
>
> --
> Niels
>
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