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

2015-05-21 Thread Yawning Angel
Hello, Some minor notes... On Wed, 20 May 2015 20:03:38 +0100 George Kadianakis wrote: > == Instructions == > > Our patch is not in an official Tor release yet, so you will need to > use an unofficial git branch: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16052#comment:18 The con

[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