[tor-bugs] #2681 [Tor]: brainstorm ways to let Tor clients use yesterday's consensus more safely

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#2681: brainstorm ways to let Tor clients use yesterday's consensus more safely
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 Reporter:  arma                                                                |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement                                                         |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal                                                              |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor                                                                 |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  dirauth-dos-resistance proposal-needed MikePerry201210d tor-client  |         Parent:  #2664             
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Comment(by nickm):

 Replying to [comment:9 mikeperry]:
 > Hrmm. I tried to ponder these imponderables, but I failed to both do
 that and get my other proposals done on time. Can we just set the limit at
 3 days and call this 'small-feature' (or make a different ticket for that
 and call that one 'small-feature')?

 I'm pretty leery of calling stuff "small" when our reason for doing so is
 that if we called it "big" we couldn't merge it on the timeframe we want.
 That's as many as four tens^W^W^W^W^W motivated reasoning, and that's
 terrible.

 That said, this _does_ feel simple to me.  If we get the proposal done
 soon and the code merged before the big feature deadline, we can try it
 out.  (I don't want to push it to the end of the feature merge schedule,
 since this kind of thing is prone to having unexpected consequences that
 could mean more fixing would be needed .)

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