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.

This is a new PoW protocol that will be used to defend against DDOSs

    • kugiyasan@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Probably if your country judges illegal to connect to the tor network, but not on a VPN. Iirc, a bridge could also hide the fact that you’re connecting to the tor network tho