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Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | The Tor Project
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this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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I wish more companies understood that Onion Services have excellent protection from DoS attacks.
You don't even have to give away your keys to CloudFlare. Just get trigger happy with IP blocking and tell users to use the Onion address to bypass any blocks.
Honestly that's not a terrible idea (assuming the target audience knows about Tor)
Most of the people who get blocked are going to be tech savvy. Except maybe someone computer illiterate at a Uni