A new DoS protection mechanism for Tor leveraging Proof-of-Work.

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    1 year ago

    The creators, actually.

    The concept was invented by Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork in 1993 as a way to deter denial-of-service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from a service requester.