Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services

Re:Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services by enigmurl on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:46PM (#37257378)

Would it really be lower on the bot net in the majority of cases? I'd imagine that real users probably wouldn't want to have their entire cpu spent on this.

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Re:Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services by croshan on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:50PM (#37257811)

real users have more CPU than a literal toaster (or smart air fryer, or IP camera, or many other common botnet devices)

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Re:Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services by AnthonyMouse on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:21AM (#37258022)

Not only that, real users actually want to use the service, not overload it. A real user might only make one request a second. A botnet device is trying to make a thousand requests per second to overload the server. Even if they each have the same CPU as a normal user, now each node in the botnet can only make as many requests per second as a user or the user can outbid them.

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Re:Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services by KirillPanov on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:29AM (#37259074)

^ this guy gets it

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