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Reject directory circuits early if they are too skewed.

Nick Mathewson requested to merge nickm/arti:ticket_466 into main

If we get a connection to a directory that tells us that it's a month in the future, any consensus that it believes in will almost certainly be too new for us to actually use.

(Similarly, if the directory says it's a month in the past, any consensus it believes in will almost certainly be too old for us to use. But we already avoid getting such consensus documents by setting a reasonable If-Modified-Since time.)

We could actually tolerate even more skew than we do with this branch, but IMO it's not a great idea to do so.

This branch is based on top of !500 (merged); only the final 3 commits are new. It's probably best to review !500 (merged) first.

Closes #466 (closed)

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