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		vardump on Sept 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Roughtime – A project that aims to provide secure ... The problem is what to do when your adversary selectively delays timestamp related packets skewing your time.

kokada on Sept 28, 2016 [–]

Note that this isn't exactly a problem in Google case. They want to fix cases where a wrong clock can invalidate certificates, so even a skew of a few minutes wouldn't be a problem (in Roughtime specially, they allow a 10 second delay as far I understand).

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