onioncompressor/README.md

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# OnionCompressor
Per v3 Tor onion spec: https://github.com/torproject/torspec/blob/main/rend-spec-v3.txt
This small module 'compresses' v3 onions by decoding the base32, removing the non-security related checksum, and removing the version number.
The resulting bytes is actually a valid ed25519 public key, but you probably shouldn't use it for anything but normal Tor onion uses.
It can also uncompress the bytes back to the human friendly format.
# Usage
`compressed: bytes = onioncompressor.compress('duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion')`
`uncompressed: str: = onioncompressor.compress(compressed)`