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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.

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Depends on the hashing algorithm. Tor implements two, and neither are vulnerable to custom architectures like ASICs
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