Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

> I have reviewed and tested them with positive results, so they are now
> merged too.

:)

> Just to make this tordate story a bit more never-ending I came up
> with a one-liner improvement (wrap-warning!):
[...]
> According to dir-spec.txt all directory authorities generates a new
> consensus every hour (see: fresh-until). Since we fetch a new consensus
> at every boot we can narrow the time points we set the time to to the
> middle of [valid-after, fresh-until], and since fresh until is always
> valid-after + 1 hour... yeah you get the picture. The benefit of this is
> that *if* htpdate fails (which should be much less likely these days)
> then the user still gets a time that is at most 30 minutes incorrect.
> This, incidentally, will prevent the known problem with hidden services
> refusing connections.

Agreed. Please push to feature/tordate, I'll review and merge into
stable and devel.

Cheers,
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