[tor-bugs] #12254 [Tor]: Tonga should sign its bridge networkstatus doc? Or maybe change format to v3-style vote?

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#12254: Tonga should sign its bridge networkstatus doc? Or maybe change format to
v3-style vote?
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     Reporter:  arma     |      Owner:
         Type:           |     Status:  new
  enhancement            |  Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
     Priority:  normal   |    Version:
    Component:  Tor      |   Keywords:  bridgedb-parsers, metrics-db,
   Resolution:           |  bridgeauth,
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Comment (by nickm):

 You probably don't want to make a consensus unless we get a design for
 multiple bridge authorities.  A consensus is explicitly the result of
 combining votes from multiple sources in a deterministic way.

 Doing a v3 networkstatus _vote_ is a more reasonable thing in the long
 term.  It's a nontrivial variation on the current code, though.  To
 generate one, you have to construct a networkstatus_t, and pass it to
 format_networkstatus_vote.  You might want to do this in a new file not
 called "networkstatus-bridges", so that code that relied on the old format
 could still work.  You would need to add a new field for the
 networkstatus_t.type field -- this is neither exactly a vote nor exactly a
 consensus.  You would also need to add support for a bridge authority to
 have the same kind of identity key/signing key separation that v3 dirauths
 have.

 If this all sounds too hard, signing the networkstatus-bridges file would
 be very simple.

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