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

  • fogetaboutit
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    1 year ago

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

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      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.