Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services - eviltoast
Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | Tor Project
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Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.
  • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The harder the puzzle, the more work is being performed, proving a user is genuine and not a bot trying to flood the service

    Except it’s literally the computer doing the math that probably isn’t something the average user would even understand how to solve. It’s de facto a bot solving it.