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submitted 1 year ago by zquestz@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

A new DoS protection mechanism for Tor leveraging Proof-of-Work.

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[-] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago

Huh, who wouldve thought this is how PoW would actually be used

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The creators, actually.

The concept was invented by Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork in 1993 as a way to deter denial-of-service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from a service requester.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

At least it's only used when the server is getting stressed.

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