[tor-bugs] #7877 [Metrics Website]: Web interface for looking up bridge status?

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#7877: Web interface for looking up bridge status?
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    Reporter:  arma             |       Owner:        
        Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  closed
    Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:        
   Component:  Metrics Website  |     Version:        
  Resolution:  duplicate        |    Keywords:        
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Changes (by karsten):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => duplicate


Comment:

 Atlas/Onionoo are actually quite close to what you describe.  The missing
 piece is that Atlas takes a 40-character hex input, applies SHA-1 on it
 using JavaScript, sends the result to Onionoo, and displays the obtained
 bridge details.  That is described in #6320, which is why I'm closing this
 ticket as duplicate.  Please add more thoughts to that ticket, or re-open
 this ticket if you meant something else.

 What we should avoid, if we can, is sending an unhashed bridge fingerprint
 to Onionoo.  While this isn't as problematic on yatei (because it enforces
 https and strips parameters from sanitized web logs), it's going to be
 problematic as soon as people use other Onionoo instances than the
 "official" one.  It's best if Onionoo doesn't learn unhashed bridge
 fingerprints in the first place.  The Atlas/Onionoo solution in #6320
 doesn't have this problem.

 Querying Tonga directly does indeed look like a dead end: this doesn't
 give us bridge pool assignment information; querying Tonga means putting
 even more load on it.  We can probably come up with more problems the
 longer we think about it.

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