[Cryptography] Best internet crypto clock: hmmmmm...

Linus Nordberg linus at nordberg.se
Thu Oct 23 04:52:52 EDT 2014


John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote
Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:12:37 -0700:

| Isn't there also some research showing that over time, you can tell
| what time zone a remote computer is in, by pinging it for timestamps,
| and noticing when its oscillators run minutely faster during the heat
| of the day, and slower during the cool of the night?

Steven J. Murdoch
Hot or Not: Revealing Hidden Services by their Clock Skew
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/ccs06hotornot.pdf


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