Man the comments section on the tor project blog are just as smooth brained as YouTube comments sections.

I kinda expected better of the average reader than commenting "hmm another captcha" 6 hours after they explicitly clarified this isn't visible to the user (which was also implicit in the whole 30ms time specified).

Like 10 points for reading the article but -30 for reading comprehension.

Huh, who wouldve thought this is how PoW would actually be used

This is a pretty excellent use case for PoW. I could see this being adopted by other DDoS services, server stacks, and eventually make its way into openwrt, pfsense etc.

This isn't the first proof of work "captcha" system, there's several already out there.

• https://mcaptcha.org/
• https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/pow-captcha
• https://gitgud.io/fatchan/haproxy-protection/

Sweet! This will help things like dread for sure.

The article is quite vague on how this is implemented. Does it require JS to be activated to work? That would be a big NO for anyone really looking into privacy, but could work for those who use TOR basically as a free VPN to escape stupid geoblocking rules.

And what will prevent DDOSers from just creating dummy requests without the intention to ever wanting to solve any PoWs? It will still allocate resources on the other side.