[tor-bugs] #8240 [Tor]: Raise our guard rotation period

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#8240: Raise our guard rotation period
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 Reporter:  arma                                    |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                                  |         Status:  needs_review      
 Priority:  major                                   |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor                                     |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-client needs-proposal 023-backport  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                                          |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Understood. I think 2 months will likely cause us enough load-balancing
 pain that we'll want to fix the underlying load balancing problem in
 0.2.5.x anyway. I think I also want to work on a few performance problems
 in 0.2.5.x, and flag-weights are included in that. I've created #8453 to
 remind me of the flag-weight changes.

 Also for the record, I am made slightly nervous about increasing the Guard
 node duration to insane levels until we also reduce the amount of
 influence a Guard's identity key allows over your paths. Hopefully that
 can also be improved/solved in 0.2.5.x. (I don't like the idea that Guard
 lifetime might considerably exceed a predecessor attack that is designed
 to find your Guards and exploit/coerce/corrupt them).

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