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.
The harder the puzzle, the more work is being performed, proving a user is genuine and not a bot trying to flood the service
Except it’s literally the computer doing the math that probably isn’t something the average user would even understand how to solve. It’s de facto a bot solving it.
Except it’s literally the computer doing the math that probably isn’t something the average user would even understand how to solve. It’s de facto a bot solving it.