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Re: Pre-approval for apt 0.7.21: "Valid-Until" feature and proxy changes



* Eugene V. Lyubimkin:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> And if Valid-Until is only checked against the real-time clock, the
>> attacker can still feed bad data over NTP, so it's not even a complete
>> defense. 8-(
>
> However, it seems there is no better solution, or is there?

A counter in the style of a Lamport clock should work, or checking
that the Valid-Until header does not recede in time.


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