Subject: Re: [TLS] Let's remove gmt_unix_time from TLS
From: Peter Gutmann <[email-masked]>
To: Eric Rescorla <[email-masked]>, Alfredo Pironti <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:20:42 +0000
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Eric Rescorla <[email-masked]> writes:

>Before we discuss mechanisms, it would be good to verify that in general 
>clients and servers don't become unhappy if the timestamp is radically 
>wrong. Has someone done measurements to verify that this is in fact the 
>case at a broad scale?

Yes.  I've been putting random noise in the timestamp field for about 15
years (or more specifically I've never put a timestamp in the timestamp
field), no user has ever reported problems with this.

Peter.