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.

    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      If Netgate added this to the internet protocols, no other device would be able to communicate with pfSense, unless they also used this special network stack.

      I mean technically that’s also the case with the Tor protocol.