On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 02:14:43 -0400 Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 06:06:41PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:

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Nov 04 15:51:00.273 [warn] Certificate not yet valid: is your system clock set incorrectly? Nov 04 15:51:00.274 [warn] (certificate lifetime runs from Nov 5 04:26:47 2011 GMT through Nov 4 04:26:47 2012 GMT. Your time is Nov 04 20:51:00 2011 GMT.)

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My system's clock gets adjusted to the network timeservers' values once per hour. I've checked the logs and found that the each adjustment has been less than 71 ms during this time. So the question is why are the authorities putting out new certificates with valid time periods beginning six or more hours in the future? Also, when will the authorities be corrected?

These aren't directory authorities. These are just random relays that you're connecting to who have clocks more than an hour off, and an over-active log message.

Oh, okay. I had thought that only the authorities passed out "certificates", which then got stored into cached-certs. I didn't know that just any old relay could do so, too.

See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4370 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4371

Thanks for the explanation, Roger. BTW, those messages seem to have stopped a few hours ago.

This is the alpha Tor, with a shiny new (and still somewhat sharp-around-the-edges) v3 link handshake. I'm glad this one doesn't crash, like the last one did. :)

Yup. After seeing the notes about that bug, I just waited an extra day or two to upgrade, skipping 0.2.3.6-alpha and going straight to 0.2.3.7-alpha when it became available. :-)

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