Autor: anonym Datum: To: The Tails public development discussion list Betreff: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate
01/27/2012 09:36 AM, intrigeri: >> 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.
