[tor-bugs] #13135 [Onionoo]: Support various fingerprint formats

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#13135: Support various fingerprint formats
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     Reporter:  Sebastian    |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  needs_review
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Onionoo      |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:
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Comment (by karsten):

 Replying to [comment:15 Sebastian]:
 > One big usecase for the partial searches is spotting some hidden service
 ring cheating sybils.

 Partial fingerprint searches are already supported for hex-encoded
 fingerprints and will be supported for base64-encoded fingerprints, too.
 Sounds like we're doing good here.

 > Why I requested the base64 format is because I want to plug whatever I
 see in a consensus in Tor into the tool to learn more about it. The same
 goes for the reverse direction - by having them displayed on the website,
 I can easily search for them on disk. I'm not sure if I ever asked for
 hex-encoded digests, only fingerprints I believe.

 The search part will be supported by Onionoo soon, and the display part is
 something you'll have to request from Atlas/Globe people in separate
 tickets.  That's for relay fingerprints.

 Does that mean descriptor digests are not relevant for your use cases?
 That includes server descriptors, extra-info descriptors, and
 microdescriptors.  There was some discussion of these above, but if
 fingerprints are all you care about, I'm happy not to include a feature
 that wouldn't be used anyway.

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