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  • Open created by George Kadianakis

    We've been improving the health of the network during onion service DoS, but not the onion service availability. This is a task for looking at this angle.

    During the related Stockholm session we looked into various approaches that could help us towards that goal. Here are some of them:

    • Introducing application-layer anonymous tokens that allow legit clients to get priority over DoS attacker
    • PoW approaches like argon2
    • CAPTCHA approaches like introducing a token server giving reCAPTCHA tokens
    • Hiding introduction points by rate limiting how quickly clients can find them. Valet nodes?
    • Having intros check that clients don't use the same IP over and over. Proof-of-existence?
    • Pay bitcoin to introduce

    Each of the above solutions has problems and this is a ticket to investigate at least the most promising of them, and attempt to move forward with something.

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