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Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | The Tor Project

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Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | The Tor Project

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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.

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No, in my eyes PoW is just a waste of resources. At least let them do some useful computation for the node.

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