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Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | The 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.

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  • no offense, but that's old news as of august of last year. But yea this has been a big game changer for hidden services that were under constant DDoS, such as the Dread forum.

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