System time in anonymity oriented LiveCDs

[Jim]

Thomas.Hluchnik at netcologne.de wrote:
> Without understanding details of the tor design, did you mention that
> tor knows the "real" time? So why dont you let tor set the right
> time. There could be a torrc setting like "when connecting to tor
> set system time according what tor says". This would enforce to
> run tor as root, not as unprivileged user, but this is a Live
> system, so this might be no problem(?).
> 
> Would this be a nice tor extension to help the LiveCD users?

Presumably some people will be running live CDs (or USBs) on systems
where they don't have the necessary privilege to set the system time.
To address these situations, what might be more useful is to be able to
tell Tor to offset the system clock by a given amount to get the "real
time".  Possbily in connection with this there could be a setting which
would cause Tor to automically determine this offset at initialization.

Cheers,
Jim


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