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Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | Tor Project (blog.torproject.org)

submitted 1 year ago by zquestz@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A new DoS protection mechanism for Tor leveraging Proof-of-Work.

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[–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huh, who wouldve thought this is how PoW would actually be used

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The creators, actually.

The concept was invented by Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork in 1993 as a way to deter denial-of-service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from a service requester.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

At least it's only used when the server is getting stressed.