Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2013-04-08 Thread Alan
Hi, Looking at my flagged emails, I found that thread that seems unfinished. Is it still relevant? Cheers On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:12:44 +0100 intrigeri intrig...@boum.org wrote: hi, (Let's kill this old stalled discussion, and free some mental space of ours.) intrigeri wrote (24 Sep 2012

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-11-28 Thread intrigeri
hi, (Let's kill this old stalled discussion, and free some mental space of ours.) intrigeri wrote (24 Sep 2012 10:11:59 GMT) : anonym wrote (06 Feb 2012 14:24:31 GMT) : [...] It turned out that if we want a long, stable Tor session with a time only handled by tordate (like when htpdate

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-29 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Maxim Kammerer wrote (28 Jan 2012 21:40:02 GMT) : It will download a new consensus after an hour. If htpdate fails, that's where Tor stops working. I'm surprised a Tor client with a clock less than 30 minutes off will behave that poorly, but well, I'll let anonym, who knows much more than

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-28 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 20:52, anonym ano...@lavabit.com wrote: When Tor shuts down it writes the consensus to the data dir even if it is unverified. When Tor starts it will load the saved consensus, and now it will find that it's valid, and hence *NOT* download a new consensus. All should be

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-27 Thread intrigeri
I have reviewed and tested them with positive results, so they are now merged too. :) 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

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-27 Thread anonym
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

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-27 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 17:39, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: When writing and testing that script, I noticed that the incoming valid-after is never more than an hour earlier from the current (correct) time, but at that point it was all kind of black magic, and I didn't know that (as you

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-26 Thread anonym
01/21/2012 04:16 PM, anonym: 01/20/2012 07:15 PM, intrigeri: Hi, I've pushed some robustness improvements to feature/tordate (forked from stable branch, targetted at 0.10.1). I have now tested the additional commits, i.e.: 35a88c3 Only HUP Tor after setting the system time to the release

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-26 Thread anonym
01/26/2012 02:18 PM, anonym: 01/21/2012 04:16 PM, anonym: 01/20/2012 07:15 PM, intrigeri: Hi, I've pushed some robustness improvements to feature/tordate (forked from stable branch, targetted at 0.10.1). I have now tested the additional commits, i.e.: 35a88c3 Only HUP Tor after setting

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-21 Thread anonym
01/20/2012 07:15 PM, intrigeri: Hi, I've pushed some robustness improvements to feature/tordate (forked from stable branch, targetted at 0.10.1). I've tested it a dozen of times or so with various seriously wrong system clocks, and it works nicely for me; I could not reproduce the bugs a

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2012-01-20 Thread intrigeri
Hi, I've pushed some robustness improvements to feature/tordate (forked from stable branch, targetted at 0.10.1). I've tested it a dozen of times or so with various seriously wrong system clocks, and it works nicely for me; I could not reproduce the bugs a few people have been reporting on the

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2011-10-05 Thread intrigeri
hi, anonym wrote (04 Oct 2011 17:00:48 GMT) : This doesn't work: In the clock way in the future case we'll only get an unverified-consensus. When tor restarts it will read unverified-consensus, see that it now is valid, and then start using it. cached-consensus will never be written, so

Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and test feature/tordate

2011-10-05 Thread anonym
10/05/2011 11:18 AM, intrigeri: When I noticed this I talked about it with nickm and Sebastian on #tor. The real fix is that Tor should rewrite unverified-consensus into cached-consensus whenever it's reloaded and successfully verified. Until that is fixed it should be safe to do the