[tor-bugs] #11157 [Tor]: Write a proposal for chaining consensus hashes

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#11157: Write a proposal for chaining consensus hashes
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 Reporter:  nickm                    |          Owner:
     Type:  defect                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
Component:  Tor                      |        Version:
 Keywords:  tor-auth needs-proposal  |  Actual Points:
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 From discussion at the dev meting

 It would be good if each consensus contained a hash of the last consensus,
 so that we could more easily authenticate long periods of the consensus
 chain.

 I forget what else this was supposed to be good for.

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