begin  quoting George Georgalis as of Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:01:36AM -0500:
[snip]
> I don't see people skewing their clocks for anonymity any time soon.
> Besides isn't the test pretty short lived, your clock would have to
> be changed between test packets, it's not simply a matter of adding
> a sine wave slew method and changing the clock every hour. Though, I
> haven't taken the time to really read the article.

A sine-wave slew wouldn't work very well... a longer sample would detect
it.

For simplicity, let's say the value in the packet is a millisecond
value.  Then we do something like

packet->timestamp = millisecond_now() + skew_offset;
skew_offset += (int)((random() * 2) - 1);

-Stewart "Very constants as needed" Stremler
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