Re: can we talk about secure time?

[Richard Johnson <rdump () river com>]

On 2014-12-21 22:51, Hanno Böck wrote:
> I perfectly understand that some people need more accuracy than tlsdate
> can give. However it's probably rare, right? I don't see any reason why
> average consumer hardware (Desktop, smartphone etc.) would have any
> problem with the 1-2 sec max inaccuracy of tlsdate.

It's typical to require at least 1/2 second accuracy for log correlation. 
This is not just for some people, but (for an example) at academic 
institutions where the staff is running average consumer hardware.

tlsdate is certainly an OK boundary sanity check on more accurate time, or for 
initial stepping on a new boot or new clock start.


Richard