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Message-ID: <5497084F.8030504@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:50:07 -0500
From: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: can we talk about secure time?
On 21/12/14 06:31 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> In contrast, servers with long-running connections and I/O polling
> loops often do not react gracefully to jumps in time. (I once
> disconnected a few hundreds, if not thousands of users from an IRC
> server just by setting its time correctly.) Sure, you can avoid that
> by using the appropriate kernel clock for timeout handling, but I have
> the impression that the correct clock changes every couple of years.
I don't think it has ever changed. CLOCK_MONOTONIC won't *ever* jump
either forwards or backwards, but is impacted by clock skew. I don't
think most use cases actually want CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, especially
considering that there's no vdso implementation so it's slow.
Of course, there's lots of buggy software which is why we have stuff
like ASLR / SSP in the first place. :)
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