Bug#783174: Randomized timestamps

2015-04-23 Thread Holger Levsen
control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate/issues/172

Thanks Hanno, for the update!


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Bug#783174: Randomized timestamps

2015-04-23 Thread Hanno Böck
What's happening here is that some TLS implementations and
servers started randomizing their timestamps. Seems this happened on
www.ptb.de.

Other distributions sometimes have www.google.com set as their
timesource. This is more reliable because google itself is using
tlsdate for chromeos.

On the long term the tls timestamp will probably go away anyway. An
alternative is to use the HTTP header time. (or fix ntp, which is
currently being done, but that's another story)

I'd suggest debian patches tlsdate to use www.google.com.

Reported upstream as well:
https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate/issues/172


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