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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.
A new DoS protection mechanism for Tor leveraging Proof-of-Work.
Man the comments section on the tor project blog are just as smooth brained as YouTube comments sections.
I kinda expected better of the average reader than commenting “hmm another captcha” 6 hours after they explicitly clarified this isn’t visible to the user (which was also implicit in the whole 30ms time specified).
Like 10 points for reading the article but -30 for reading comprehension.
Man the comments section on the tor project blog are just as smooth brained as YouTube comments sections.
I kinda expected better of the average reader than commenting “hmm another captcha” 6 hours after they explicitly clarified this isn’t visible to the user (which was also implicit in the whole 30ms time specified).
Like 10 points for reading the article but -30 for reading comprehension.