Re: [Tails-dev] Time syncing design question

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Author: intrigeri
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Time syncing design question
Hi,

Sebastian Hahn wrote (14 Sep 2014 13:27:20 GMT) :
> In the security discussion[0] it is mentioned that replaying consensuses
> older than one week won't work, due to onion keys. I'm not sure this is
> accurate: If I manage to do a sybil attack and get my 10 million relays
> into the consensus, I could just not rotate onion keys on those relays
> and use the consensus indefinitely, no? Am I confused about anything, or
> was this forgotten?


> Thanks for any pointers. Please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to
> this list.


> [0]: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/Time_syncing/#index1h2


anonym, you're the time sync' expert here => may you please have a look?

Cheers,
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intrigeri