Cryptographic puzzles are used to slow down an attack, by stopping the
attacker from flooding the servers. It will not stop him from flooding the
network, but usually that is a rather hard task if he can not establish a
connection with the servers.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 1:57 PM Alex Monk wrote:
I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that the attacker was just
flooding the network with traffic?
On Sat, 7 Sep 2019, 12:25 John Erling Blad, wrote:
> There are several papers about how to stop DDoS by using cryptographic
> puzzles.[1] The core idea is to give the abuser some
There are several papers about how to stop DDoS by using cryptographic
puzzles.[1] The core idea is to give the abuser some algorithmic work he
has to solve, thereby forcing him to waste processing power, and then to
slow him down to a manageable level.[2] That only work if you are the
target, and
