pskc_set_key_data_timedrift(3)

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💅 pskc_set_key_data_timedrift — the libpskc girlies' time-drift setter ✨

okay so bestie, real talk: this is a libpskc man page. Yes that libpskc. It's a little setter function and it's honestly iconic for what it does. Let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pskc_set_key_data_timedrift — literally the API function, that's her whole job, no notes ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <pskc.h>

void pskc_set_key_data_timedrift(pskc_key_t * key, uint32_t timedrift);

look at her. void return, two args, clean. we stan a low-maintenance queen 👑

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • pskc_key_t * key — a pskc_key_t handle, bestie. and where do you get one of those? from pskc_get_keypackage(), obviously. that's the plug 💅
  • uint32_t timedrift — the time drift value you want to set. it's a uint32_t. it's the number. that's it, that's the vibe 🍓

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So what this does: it sets the PSKC KeyPackage Key Data TimeDrift value. Say it with me — TimeDrift 🌈

This element holds the device clock drift value for time-based OTP algorithms. Not me explaining clock drift in a man page... but okay the way that this matters is: it's the integer value (positive or negative drift, both are valid, we don't judge 💜) that says how many time intervals the validation server has established the device clock drifted — and specifically, after the last successful authentication.

The example that ate, fr fr: if the last successful authentication established a device time value of 8 intervals from a specific start date, but the validation server determines the time value at 9 intervals — then the server SHOULD record the drift as -1. Yeah. Nine minus... it's -1. That's the whole bit, don't overthink it, the server has it handled 😭

ngl that capital-S SHOULD is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. it's a standards SHOULD, so like... behave accordingly 🧚

⭐ SINCE ⭐

2.2.0 — she's been here since 2.2.0, an absolute veteran, a main character of the changelog 👑

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

Found a bug? Don't suffer in silence, bestie, report it to <oath-toolkit-help@nongnu.org>. 🫶

like genuinely, go tell them. they want to know. iykyk 💀

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(yes that's the real license text, it's giving generous, it's giving "take the page, just keep the receipts" 💖 keep the copyright notice and this notice, periodt.)

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this lil writeup is from libpskc, version 2.6.15, for the pskc_set_key_data_timedrift(3) page — go forth and set those drifts, bestie ✨💅🦋

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