[tor-bugs] #2681 [Tor Client]: 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 Client                                                 |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  dirauth-dos-resistance, proposal-needed, MikePerry201210d  |         Parent:  #2664             
   Points:                                                             |   Actualpoints:                    
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Changes (by mikeperry):

  * keywords:  dirauth-dos-resistance, proposal-needed => dirauth-dos-
               resistance, proposal-needed, MikePerry201210d


Comment:

 I'll see if I can write something up for the Oct 10th deadline for this.
 Nick's main concern is that we make sure to preserve clients attempts
 fetch a fresh consensus from the dir mirrors/dirauths before using the old
 one to build circuits.

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