Re: How to set time.

2009-07-23 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:41:14 -0700 Kyle Williams kyle.kwilli...@gmail.com wrote: Your Tor client will tell you that you have a time set that is too far off what it should be. It will report this in minutes.Read that line and adjust your time by X minutes. For someone wishing to make a

Re: How to set time.

2009-07-23 Thread Niels Elgaard Larsen
Watson Ladd wrote: Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote: On the other hand it would work better for eg. TOR browser bundle. It would enable an entry guard to give a different time to a client, and so distinguish that client's connections to sites of interest via protocols that use a timestamp sent in

Re: How to set time.

2009-07-23 Thread Scott Bennett
population would probably not understand how to set the time, even if told. :- NTP is an option, but if used without authentification it also opens up for the attack you described. For an organization or a country controlling an entire network it would be easy to change timestamps in flight

Re: How to set time.

2009-07-23 Thread Niels Elgaard Larsen
Scott Bennett wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:32:27 -0400 Niels Elgaard Larsen elga...@agol.dk wrote: Yes, that was why i suggested only using it to set the time zone by changing the clock a number of hours. I don't think that would be good enough to satisfy tor's requirements for

Re: How to set time.

2009-07-22 Thread Kyle Williams
Your Tor client will tell you that you have a time set that is too far off what it should be. It will report this in minutes.Read that line and adjust your time by X minutes. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Niels Elgaard Larsen elga...@agol.dkwrote: How do you set the system time