commit 15b45c920e8362852b4e9ef8226ade80331b0e35 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Mon Aug 16 11:19:05 2021 -0400

Clarify: clients do not report their timestamp. --- tor-spec.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tor-spec.txt b/tor-spec.txt index dce264f..d7b2c53 100644 --- a/tor-spec.txt +++ b/tor-spec.txt @@ -892,7 +892,8 @@ see tor-design.pdf.

The timestamp is a big-endian unsigned integer number of seconds since the Unix epoch. Implementations MUST ignore unexpected bytes - at the end of the cell. + at the end of the cell. Clients SHOULD send "0" as their timestamp, to + avoid fingerprinting.

Implementations MAY use the timestamp value to help decide if their clocks are skewed. Initiators MAY use "other OR's address" to help