DDoS attacks via TOR?

Dmitriy Kazimirov dkazimirow at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 01:12:30 UTC 2008


Btw, about policy,
I'm curious what will happen if highly popular(equivalent web site has
dedicated server and utilize it) hidden service will be created. Could Tor
network carry such load?
(if site content for download is rather small files,less than Mb in general)

2008/11/6 Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:51:40PM +0100, dr._no at cool.ms wrote:
> > is there any documented case of a DDoS attack via TOR or is
> > a DDoS attack via TOR only an urban legend?
>
> It doesn't make any sense to DDoS people over Tor. It wouldn't work.
>
> See also https://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse#DDoS
>
> --Roger
>
>


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