From: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: WG: Need for HW-clock independent timestamps
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 17:34:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1fb2c8b-12f1-7e98-8291-a63c1eb91682@urlichs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180521145618.GA3199@wolff.to>
On 21.05.2018 16:56, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> If you want to go that route, you should just treat it as a two part
> number. One for a boot count, that would get incremented every boot
> and saved and a low order part that is reset to 0 at every boot.
That'd work for me, though I prefer to use an opaque number /
base64string-of-12-bytes that doesn't look like it means something.
> Note that this scheme leaks information to the peer.
Rebooting is likely to leak that information anyway, because the peer
sees a period with no packets from you (also, it can't ping you)
followed by a possibly-premature re-key (depending on how long your boot
process takes).
I might also wonder why you'd peer with somebody whom you don't trust
not to collect and/or abuse the information that you just rebooted …
--
-- Matthias Urlichs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-21 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-11 22:07 WG: Need for HW-clock independent timestamps Axel Neumann
2018-05-11 22:45 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-12 0:05 ` Glen Bojsza
2018-05-12 19:29 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-12 19:41 ` Aaron Jones
2018-05-15 20:21 ` Devan Carpenter
2018-05-15 20:49 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-16 7:10 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 19:32 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-16 20:32 ` Steve Gilberd
2018-05-17 3:40 ` Paul
2018-05-17 5:03 ` Roman Mamedov
2018-05-17 5:53 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-17 7:07 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-17 8:28 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 20:35 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-12 22:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-12 23:05 ` Reuben Martin
2018-05-13 6:11 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-13 12:37 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-16 7:01 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-16 9:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-16 11:08 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 11:12 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-13 14:21 ` Wang Jian
2018-05-21 10:07 ` WG: " Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 11:22 ` Reto Brunner
2018-05-21 11:52 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 12:31 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 12:35 ` Reto Brunner
2018-05-21 13:53 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-21 14:56 ` Bruno Wolff III
2018-05-21 15:34 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2018-05-22 20:25 ` Ivan Labáth
2018-05-23 2:51 ` Matthias Urlichs
2019-02-04 14:56 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-02-23 4:00 ` Axel Neumann
2019-02-23 12:35 ` Ivan Labáth
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2018-05-21 11:58 ` reiner otto
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