Relays can trick authorities into assigning the hsdir flag early

Dirauths trust the uptime value reported in a relay's descriptor instead of doing some checking of their own to see if the reported value is plausible.This means it is cheaper than expected to mount a dos attack against a known hidden service by targetting the nodes responsible for storing its descriptor.

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