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.
  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    It’s not like it’s going to consume electricity like Bitcoin.

    PoW was first conceptualized as an anti spam method. It’s just a little overhead to make it expensive to make DOS attacks. This makes perfect sense.