[tor-dev] [PATCH] Defences against the recent hidden service DoS attacks

2015-05-20 Thread George Kadianakis
Hello, we recently received more reports of Denial of Service attacks on hidden services. You can find our ticket here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16052 After some debugging, we found the attack vector and identified a few ways to fix or mitigate it. In this attack, the a

Re: [tor-dev] Namecoin .onion to .bit linking

2015-05-20 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
On 5/19/15 4:43 PM, Jeremy Rand wrote: > Hello Tor-Dev, > > One of the criticisms of Namecoin which seems to be raised > sometimes is that the current domain namespace spec doesn't have a > method for a .bit domain owner to prove that they are in control of > a .onion. (This is also an issue for

Re: [tor-dev] The Onion Name System (OnioNS)

2015-05-20 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 05/19/2015 07:11 PM, OnioNS Dev wrote: > On 05/19/2015 03:20 AM, tor-dev-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: > >> I'm not sure how your proposal significantly improves on NameCoin, >> except that it is specialized to Tor (and thus doesn't attempt to >> be as compatible with DNS as Namecoin): fo