[tor-bugs] #17231 [ExoneraTor]: HTML ​ in middle of fingerprint results in corrupted copy/paste

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#17231: HTML ​ in middle of fingerprint results in corrupted copy/paste
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     Reporter:  starlight   |      Owner:
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major       |  Milestone:
    Component:  ExoneraTor  |    Version:
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:
Actual Points:              |  Parent ID:
       Points:              |    Sponsor:
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Comment (by starlight):

 Ran into when pasting fingerprint into a text document in a plain-text
 editor.  Result is extra digits with no indication.  Then later
 copy/pasted from text document to end of
 https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/ and it did not work.  Due to the
 nature of SHA hashes, there's no such thing as an approximately correct
 hash and no way to reliably, at a later time, figure out what the correct
 hash was from the corrupted value alone.

 Seems quite bad to me that a legal worker might copy/paste a fingerprint
 and then weeks, months or years later find it invalid.  A pretty small-
 screen page seems far less important than maintaining the integrity of the
 string--let it wrap ugly.

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