libsodium mess

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > - to fuzz the low-order bits of the clock.
> 
> Hmm, can you expand on this a bit?  Which clock?  How much fuzz?
> Does this degrade anything?

Whenever ntpd polls the system clock, it fuzzes the lowest-order digits
of the result. The amount of fuzz to apply is bounded by half the measured
interval between system clock ticks.

That shouldn't degrade anything. I presume it's a measure to foil timing
attacks of some sort.  Daniel might be able to say more.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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