Describe a potential (rare) distringuisher in idle circuits.

In the rare event that a user resumes activity after a period between the
"reduced connection timeout" and the full value, and that user has not set
reduced padding, this is a distinguisher on circuits that have been held idle
and open for that long.
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Mike Perry 2022-05-26 20:01:09 +00:00 committed by Nick Mathewson
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serves as a reasonable default regardless of implementation.
- For all use cases, reduced padding clients use half the consensus
value.
- Implementations MAY mark circuits held open past the reduced padding
quantity (half the consensus value) as "not to be used for streams",
to prevent their use from becoming a distinguisher.
- Default: 1800
* nf_pad_before_usage