Author: Jacob Appelbaum Date: To: Maxim Kammerer CC: tor-talk, The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] [tor-talk] secure and simple network time (hack)
Maxim Kammerer: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@???> wrote:
>> Allow me to be very explicit: it is harder to parse an HTTP Date header
>> than properly than casting a 32bit integer and flipping their order. The
>> attack surface is very small and easy to audit.
>
> Just discovered that tlsdated in tlsdate-0.0.6 is dying with a
> segmentation fault after a while. Not surprised after seeing the code
> — my experimentation with this gimmick is finally over. Turns out that
> “throw something together and wait for patches” is not a sound
> development approach.
>
tlsdated isn't tlsdate - it launches various helper programs. How is it
crashing?
