Ongoing DDoS on the Tor Network: Status

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Post by murxmaster » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

Ongoing DDoS on the Tor Network: Status
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Re: Ongoing DDoS on the Tor Network: Status

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Post by gitgud » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 5:58 AM UTC

Since all TOR traffic is encrypted, how can they differentiate between legitimate TOR traffic and DDOS traffic?

Re: Ongoing DDoS on the Tor Network: Status

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Post by gizmo686 » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 6:03 AM UTC

gitgud wrote: post #2

Since all TOR traffic is encrypted, how can they differentiate between legitimate TOR traffic and DDOS traffic?

I assume the DDOS is not a generic flood of traffic, but rather a particular kind of traffic that causes a disproportionate ammount of work (or, rather, memory usage) in the target. In this case, the offending component would necessarily be part of the unencrypted portion of a TOR packet that the relay is processing.