From 15b45c920e8362852b4e9ef8226ade80331b0e35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Mathewson Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:19:05 -0400 Subject: Clarify: clients do not report their timestamp. --- tor-spec.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tor-spec.txt') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf