New PoW protocol implementation for onion services
New PoW protocol implementation for onion services
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.
This is a new PoW protocol that will be used to defend against DDOSs
For anyone who comes by and just skims this, this is not cryptocurrency and it is not a captcha, it's just additional computation the browser will do in the background to prove it's a real human operated device.
They say it takes roughly 5ms on a fast computer and 30ms on a slow one, but on a DDOS attack would scale those up to a minute of work per connection.
It's an interesting feature and will be eager to see it in action. Surely hope it stays dormant most of the time though.
Does this PoW deannonymise tor.