[tor-bugs] #4584 [Tor Bridge]: Implement a new certificate serial number strategy

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#4584: Implement a new certificate serial number strategy
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 Reporter:  asn         |          Owner:       
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal      |      Milestone:       
Component:  Tor Bridge  |        Version:       
 Keywords:              |         Parent:  #3972
   Points:              |   Actualpoints:       
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 We currently put time(NULL) in our certificate's serial numbers, which is
 not a good idea.

 Proposal 179 says to put 8 random bytes as the serial numbers of our new
 certificates. It seems like a sane choice.

 (Also see #4570 for another prop179 serial number trick which did make it
 in.)

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