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I know about NTP, but since it's communication is NOT encrypted I don't want to use it.

The question is, how can I sync time with Tor proxy?

"HTP" protocol can achieve this, but it's not reliable(sometimes timeout due to Tor slowness).

How can I get reliable time from Tor's nodes quickly, anonymously, and correctly?

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  • I'm using Windows, so Linux is no-go. Any chance to get tlsget.exe(Windows) or other thing? Also I already read about Tails...
    – user4929
    Commented Oct 22, 2014 at 14:42

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Have a look at how Tails does time syncing via the Tor consensus file. You can also use Jacob Applebaum's tlsdate over Tor.

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  • hm, does tor even connect when the system time is from early 1970? as far as i understand, tlsdate by default just does its thing over a regular tls connection...
    – mroq
    Commented Dec 12, 2014 at 20:05
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Really, if you're that paranoid that you won't even trust your network provider not to man-in-the-middle attack NTP traffic, then you may as well invest in a cheap GPS receiver.

Then once you've got a cheap GPS receiver, configure ntpd to use that to synchronise the time instead. GPS provides a very accurate time-source.

Of course someone could spoof GPS satellites, but then everyone in the area would be constantly getting lost when their navigation devices failed.

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