Time keeping is crucial for security, privacy, and anonymity. Sdwdate is a Tor friendly replacement for rdate and ntpdate that sets the system's clock by communicating via TCP with one or more HTTPS webservers.
At randomized intervals, sdwdate connects to a variety of webservers and extracts the time stamps from headers (RFC 2616). Using sclockadj option, time is gradually adjusted preventing bigger clock jumps that could confuse logs, servers, Tor, i2p, etc.
Plugins are supported via hooks. These hooks include pre-connect, pre-fetch, post-fetch, post-success, post-failure, and progress. Sdwdate comes without a GUI, but is available as a plugin called timesync.
This package contains the sdwdate time fetcher and daemon. No installation on remote servers required. To avoid conflicts, this daemon should be not be enabled together with ntp or tlsdated.
(This package description has been automatically extracted and mirrored from debian/control.)
See also man folder for more information.
Generic Readme Version 0.2
Generic Readme beings here. Have a look into the man sub folder (if available).
The functionality of this package was once exclusively available in the Whonix (github) anonymity distribution.
Since multiple projects and individuals stated interest in various of Whonix's functionality (examples: Qubes OS (discussion); piratelinux (discussion)) and because it's better to share certain characteristics (such as /etc/hostname etc.) among all anonymity distributions), as much source code as possible, Whonix is split into multiple standalone packages (list).
While the functionality of the original source code of this package has been tested and found to be stable in Whonix, it still is a work in progress. Split of Whonix is not done yet. Packaging is unfinished. Functionality has not been tested outside of Whonix yet. This is a fully untested early pre-release allowing further discussion on how various anonymity distributions can be best standardized and share as much source code as possible.
Files in etc/... in root source folder will be installed to /etc/..., files in usr/... will be installed to /usr/... and so forth. This should make renaming, moving files around, packaging, etc. very simple. Packaging of most packages looks very similar.
Although probably due to generic packaging not very hard. Still, this requires developer skills. Ports welcome!
See comments below and instructions.
- Replace
apparmor-profile-torbrowserwith the actual name of this package (equals the root source folder name of this package after you git cloned it). - You only need config-package-dev, when it is listed in the
Build-Depends:field indebian/control. - Many packages do not have signed git tags yet. You may request them if desired.
- We might later use a documentation template.
Binary packages will later be available in Whonix's APT repository. By no means you're required to use the binary version of this package. This might be interesting for users of Debian and derivatives.
Most welcome. Ports, distribution maintainers, developers, patches, forks, testers, comments, etc. all welcome.
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