Directory Voting

An implementation of the voting process used in the Tor directory protocol, version 3 [dir-spec].

bushel.directory.voting.valid_after_now_guess()

Takes a good guess at the valid-after time of the latest consensus. There is an assumption that there is a new consensus every hour and that it is valid from the top of the hour. Different valid-after times are compliant with the protocol however, and so this may be wrong.

The voting timeline is described in §1.4 of the Tor directory protocol, version 3 ([dir-spec]).

Returns

The start of the current hour in UTC.

Return type

datetime