Bug#690117: ITP: tlsdate -- secure parasitic rdate replacement

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

On 10/10/2012 09:26 AM, Kartik Mistry wrote:
> * Package name    : tlsdate
>   Version         : x.y.z
>   Upstream Author : Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>,
>                     Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
> * URL             : 0.0.1
> * License         : BSD
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : secure parasitic rdate replacement
> 
> tlsdate sets the local clock by securely connecting with TLS to remote
> servers and extracting the remote time out of the secure handshake. Unlike
> ntpdate, tlsdate uses TCP, for instance connecting to a remote HTTPS or TLS
> enabled service, and provides some protection against adversaries that try to
> feed you malicious time information.

Jacob Appelbaum already filed an ITP[1] for this package.

  [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/681000>

Ansgar